prostatic bud formation
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0060513
The morphogenetic process in which a region of the fetal urogenital sinus epithelium is specified to become the prostate, resulting in prostate bud outgrowth. [ GOC:dph http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18977204 ]
Synonyms: prostate gland formation, primary prostate bud formation, prostate ductal budding
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- anatomical structure formation involved in morphogenesis and results in formation of some prostate bud