lung development
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0030324
The process whose specific outcome is the progression of the lung over time, from its formation to the mature structure. 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. [ GOC:jid http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002048 ]
Term info
biological_process
GO:0030324
Term relations
- animal organ development
- part of some respiratory system development
- results in development of some lung
- part of some respiratory tube development
- lung alveolus development
- lung cell differentiation
- lung lobe development
- cell-cell signaling involved in lung development
- lung-associated mesenchyme development
- bronchiole development
- lung growth
- lung epithelium development
- lung connective tissue development
- lung vasculature development
- lung morphogenesis
- mesenchymal cell proliferation involved in lung development
- mesenchymal cell differentiation involved in lung development