Term Name: lymphangiogenesis
Synonyms: lymph vessel formation
Definition: Lymph vessel formation when new vessels emerge from the proliferation of pre-existing vessels.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0001946]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
is part of: lymph vessel morphogenesis
has parts: branching involved in lymph vessel morphogenesis
is a type of: anatomical structure formation involved in morphogenesis anatomical structure morphogenesis
negatively regulated by: negative regulation of lymphangiogenesis
positively regulated by: positive regulation of lymphangiogenesis
regulated by: regulation of lymphangiogenesis