Planteome: Term Details for "lung growth" (GO:0060437)

Accession: GO:0060437
Name: lung growth
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
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: None
History: See term history for GO:0060437 at QuickGO
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to lung growth.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to lung growth.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for lung growth.
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