The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.
a condition characterized by flaccidity of the tracheal support cartilage which leads to tracheal collapse especially when increased airflow is demanded; the trachea normally dilates slightly during inspiration and narrows slightly during expiration; these processes are exaggerated in tracheomalacia, leading to airway collapse on expiration; the usual symptom of tracheomalacia is expiratory stridor or laryngeal crow