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loading...| Preferred Name | lung | |
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Respiration organ that develops as an oupocketing of the esophagus. Snakes and limbless lizards typically possess only the right lung as a major respiratory organ; the left lung is greatly reduced, or even absent. Amphisbaenians, however, have the opposite arrangement, with a major left lung, and a reduced or absent right lung [WP] |
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002048 |
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Snakes and limbless lizards typically possess only the right lung as a major respiratory organ; the left lung is greatly reduced, or even absent. Amphisbaenians, however, have the opposite arrangement, with a major left lung, and a reduced or absent right lung [WP] |
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pulmo |
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Respiration organ that develops as an oupocketing of the esophagus. |
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UBERON |
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lung |
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UBERON:0002048 |
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lung |
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