loading...| Preferred Name | lung | |
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pulmo |
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| Definitions |
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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http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0024109 https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/701 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C12468 http://www.snomedbrowser.com/Codes/Details/181216001 AAO:0000275 EHDAA:2205 VHOG:0000310 EHDAA:1554 MESH:D008168 EV:0100042 OpenCyc:Mx4rvVjKy5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA MA:0000415 EHDAA2:0001042 FMA:7195 MIAA:0000135 galen:Lung BTO:0000763 MAT:0000135 AAO:0010567 CALOHA:TS-0568 GAID:345 UMLS:C0024109 XAO:0000119 EMAPA:16728 EFO:0000934 |
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| definition |
Respiration organ that develops as an oupocketing of the esophagus. |
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| external definition |
Either of two organs which allow gas exchange absorbing oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide with exhaled air.[AAO] |
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pulmo |
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| homology notes |
Lungs had already developed as paired ventral pockets from the intestine in the ancestor of Osteognathostomata. (...) In actinopterygian fishes, apart from Cladistia, the ventral intestinal pocket migrates dorsally and becomes the swim-bladder, a mainly hydrostatical organ (reference 1); Comparative transcriptome analyses indicate molecular homology of zebrafish swimbladder and Mammalian lung (reference 2).[well established][VHOG] |
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lung |
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UBERON:0002048 |
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lung |
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| taxon notes |
respiration organ in all air-breathing animals, including most tetrapods, a few fish and a few snails. In mammals and the more complex life forms, the two lungs are located in the chest on either side of the heart. Their principal function is to transport oxygen from the atmosphere into the bloodstream, and to release carbon dioxide from the bloodstream into the atmosphere. This exchange of gases is accomplished in the mosaic of specialized cells that form millions of tiny, exceptionally thin-walled air sacs called alveoli. // Avian lungs do not have alveoli as mammalian lungs do, they have Faveolar lungs. They contain millions of tiny passages known as para-bronchi, connected at both ends by the dorsobronchi |
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