The brain is the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate, and most invertebrate, animals. Some primitive animals such as jellyfish and starfish have a decentralized nervous system without a brain, while sponges lack any nervous system at all. In vertebrates, the brain is located in the head, protected by the skull and close to the primary sensory apparatus of vision, hearing, balance, taste, and smell[WP]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/300 ]
Term information
- MBA:8
- EHDAA2:0000183
- EFO:0000302
- PBA:3999
- AAO:0010478
- galen:Brain
- NCIT:C12439
- SCTID:258335003
- FMA:50801
- MESH:D001921
- Wikipedia:Brain
- BAMS:Brain
- EHDAA:2641
- EV:0100164
- MAT:0000098
- BILA:0000135
- VHOG:0000157
- GAID:571
- XAO:0000010
- MIAA:0000098
- MA:0000168
- EHDAA:6485
- BIRNLEX:796
- DHBA:10155
- ZFA:0000008
- TAO:0000008
- MBA:997
- CALOHA:TS-0095
- BAMS:Br
- EMAPA:16894
- BTO:0000142
- ABA:Brain
- HBA:4005
cumbo, uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, major_organ, human_reference_atlas
the brain
synganglion
suprasegmental structures
suprasegmental levels of nervous system
encephalon
Term relations
- ectoderm-derived structure
- organ
- existence ends during some fully formed stage
- composed primarily of some neural cell
- contributes to morphology of some nervous system
- part of some central nervous system
- BSPO_0000123 some multicellular organism
- immediate transformation of some future brain
- sulcus of brain
- brain ventricle/choroid plexus
- fasciculus of brain
- subarachnoid space of brain
- smooth muscle cell of the brain vasculature
- brain meninx
- brain white matter
- brain gray matter
- cerebral subcortex
- aggregate regional part of brain
- vasculature of brain
- regional part of brain
- brain endothelium
- ventricular system of brain
- forebrain-midbrain boundary
- tract of brain
- brain microvascular endothelial cell
- brain pericyte
- brain macroglial cell
- midbrain-hindbrain boundary