A tube in the respiratory system. Examples: bronchus, bronchiole, trachea. [ http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0030323 http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]
Synonyms: segment of tracheobronchial tree
Term information
- EMAPA:37946 (MA:th)
- FMA:12224
in GO lung development is part of respiratory tube development. This can lead to inconsistencies with other ontologies, e.g. VT. The GO structure may be better represented by a tree of tubes (see the FMA class)
segment of tracheobronchial tree
tracheobronchial tree segment
respiratory conducting tube