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respiratory airway

Go to external page http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001005

Term info

Label

respiratory airway

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, grouping_class

curator note

This class generically groups trachea and analagous structures throughout metazoa. Consider renaming, as the term could be taken to mean lumen of tracheal system (e.g. in SNOMED). As a grouping class this is quite vague, as it is not clear where the airway begins and ends

definition

An airway through which respiratory air passes in organisms.

has broad synonym

airway, airways

id

UBERON:0001005

imported from

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon.owl, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cl.owl