Term Name: prostatic bud formation
Synonyms: primary prostate bud formation, prostate ductal budding, prostate gland formation
Definition: The morphogenetic process in which a region of the fetal urogenital sinus epithelium is specified to become the prostate, resulting in prostate bud outgrowth.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0060513]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
has parts: prostate field specification
is a type of: animal organ formation lateral sprouting from an epithelium morphogenesis of an epithelial bud morphogenesis of embryonic epithelium prostate gland epithelium morphogenesis
negatively regulated by: negative regulation of prostatic bud formation
regulated by: regulation of prostatic bud formation