Pulmonary Acinus

Preferred Label : Pulmonary Acinus;

NCIt definition : A complex of alveolated airways, located distal to the terminal bronchioles, comprising respiratory bronchioles, alveolar ducts, and alveolar sacs, which is the functional unit of the lung.;

Details

Origin ID

C33426;

UMLS CUI

C0225696;

Anatomic structure is physical part of
- Pulmonary Lobule [NCIt concept]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Entire pulmonary acinus (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- pulmonary acinus [UBERON concept]
Contains anatomical structure(s)
- Alveolus [NCIt concept]
- Left Lung Alveolus [NCIt concept]
- Left Lung Respiratory Bronchiole [NCIt concept]
- Left Lung Terminal Bronchiole [NCIt concept]
- Respiratory Bronchiole [NCIt concept]
- Right Lung Alveolus [NCIt concept]
- Right Lung Respiratory Bronchiole [NCIt concept]
- Right Lung Terminal Bronchiole [NCIt concept]
- Terminal Bronchiole [NCIt concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Pulmonary acinus [FMA entity]
- Pulmonary lobule [FMA entity]
- Structure of acinus of lung (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- pulmonary acinus [Radlex concept]
- pulmonary lobule [SNOMED Notion]
See also inter- (CISMeF)
- Entire pulmonary acinus (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Body Part, Organ, or Organ Component [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Pulmonary acinus [FMA entity]
- Structure of acinus of lung (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- pulmonary acinus [Radlex concept]
- pulmonary acinus [UBERON concept]

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