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Accession
GO:0060437
Name
lung growth
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
None
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The increase in size or mass of a lung. In all air-breathing vertebrates the lungs are developed from the ventral wall of the oesophagus as a pouch which divides into two sacs. In amphibians and many reptiles the lungs retain very nearly this primitive sac-like character, but in the higher forms the connection with the esophagus becomes elongated into the windpipe and the inner walls of the sacs become more and more divided, until, in the mammals, the air spaces become minutely divided into tubes ending in small air cells, in the walls of which the blood circulates in a fine network of capillaries. In mammals the lungs are more or less divided into lobes, and each lung occupies a separate cavity in the thorax. Source: GOC:dph
Comment
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History
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Parents of lung growth (GO:0060437)
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lung growth [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  lung development (GO:0030324)
lung growth [is_a relation] is_a  organ growth (GO:0035265)
Children of lung growth (GO:0060437)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
secretion by lung epithelial cell involved in lung growth (GO:0061033) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  lung growth
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