Term: blood island hematopoietic stem cell proliferation
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Name: blood island
Synonyms: blood islands, caudal hematopoietic tissue, posterior blood island, posterior ICM
Definition: Nests of developing blood cells arising late in the segmentation period from the intermediate mass, and located in the anterior-ventral tail, just posterior to the yolk extension.
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000094]
Name: hematopoietic stem cell proliferation
Synonyms: hemopoietic stem cell proliferation
Definition: The expansion of a hematopoietic stem cell population by cell division. A hematopoietic stem cell is a stem cell from which all cells of the lymphoid and myeloid lineages develop.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0071425]    QuickGO    AmiGO