| Term: | caudal vein plexus venous blood vessel morphogenesis |
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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: | caudal vein plexus |
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| Definition: | Post-vent vasculature which forms an interconnecting network of venous tubes. The caudal vein plexus forms via a very active period of angiogenic sprouting, beginning at 25 hpf when venous endothelial cells of the posterior cardinal vein sprout and migrate ventrally, then fuse with neighboring tip cells. This process reiterates during a five-hour window, forming a primordial plexus by 30 hpf. By two days of development, the primitive caudal vein plexus has matured into a complex, well-perfused, venous vascular network. Starting at 4 dpf the caudal vein plexus starts to remodel and simplify. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0001286] |
| Name: | venous blood vessel morphogenesis |
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| Synonyms: | vein morphogenesis, venous morphogenesis |
| Definition: | The process in which the anatomical structures of venous blood vessels are generated and organized. Veins are blood vessels that transport blood from the body and its organs to the heart. |
| Ontology: | GO: Biological Process [GO:0048845] QuickGO AmiGO |