| Term: | intersegmental vessel unidimensional cell growth |
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| Note: | This page represents a term created by the combination ("post-composition") of two ontology terms. For more information on the individual terms, click the hyperlinked name. |
| Name: | intersegmental vessel |
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| Synonyms: | intersegmental vessels, intersomitic vessels, segmental vessel |
| Definition: | Blood vessels that connect the dorsal aorta or the posterior cardinal vein and the dorsal longitudinal anastomotic vessel. They run along the vertical myotomal boundaries. At early stages these vessels don't have venous or arterial markers. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0001285] |
| Name: | unidimensional cell growth |
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| Synonyms: | cell elongation, cell growth along one axis, cell growth in one dimension, cell morphogenesis by unidimensional growth, polar cell growth, polarized cell growth |
| Definition: | The process in which a cell irreversibly increases in size in one [spatial] dimension or along one axis, resulting in the morphogenesis of the cell. |
| Ontology: | GO: Biological Process [GO:0009826] QuickGO AmiGO |