Preferred Label : lung;
Uberon definition : Respiration organ that develops as an oupocketing of the esophagus.;
Uberon Homology note : 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];
Uberon Taxon note : 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;
Origin ID : 0002048;
UMLS CUI : C0024109;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Lung [ICD-11 Extension code]
- Lung [ICHI extension code]
- lung [Blood Transfusion thesaurus concept]
- lung [Artificial nutrition thesaurus concept]
- lung [COVID-19 Thesaurus concept]
- See also inter- (CISMeF)
- Semantic type(s)
- UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Uberon cross reference
- adjacent to
- contributes to morphology of
- develops from
- has part
- in lateral side of
- innervated by
- part of
Respiration organ that develops as an oupocketing of the esophagus.
