vascular system development vs. vasculature development

[Doug howe]

I guess this sort of leads into another question then.  If 'vasculature 
development' had a synonym 'vascular system development', would the term 
'vascular development' then be an is_a child of both 'organ development' 
and 'system development'?  Doesn't that mean that the vascular system is 
simultaneously an organ and a system?  Leveraging Midori's "I'm not an 
expert" clause...I would hazard a guess that something cannot be both an 
organ and a system at the same time...?

-Doug

Midori Harris wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Doug howe wrote:
>>
>> GO currently has a term 'vasculature development' (GO:0001944) which 
>> is a child of 'organ development'...but GO has no term "vascular 
>> system development' as a child of 'system development'.
>>
>> A few questions follow from this:
>>
>> 1. Should a new term exist for 'vascular system development', and if 
>> so...how is it different from 'vasculature development'?
>
> All of the usual "I'm not an expert" caveats apply, but I don't see 
> any difference between vasculature and vascular system. Unless anyone 
> who does know the biology better tells us otherwise, I'd say a synonym 
> is the way to GO.
>
> m