The parenchymatous tissue of the spleen that surrounds splenic blood vessels, consists of compact masses of lymphatic cells and is where foreign material removed from the blood is used to initiate an immune reaction that results in the production of antibodies. [ http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/csmith MP:0002357 ]

Synonyms: white pulp pulpa alba splenic white pulp spleen white pulp

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uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

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noduli lymphoidei splenici

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UBERON:0001959