convergent extension involved in axis elongation

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The morphogenetic process in which an epithelium narrows along one axis and lengthens in a perpendicular axis contributing to the lengthening of the axis of an organism. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12062082 GOC:dph ]