The jelly-like substance in the middle of the spinal disc which is a remnant of the notochord. [ http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/llw2 MP:0006392 ]
Synonyms: nucleus pulposus (diskus intervertebralis) pulpy nucleus
Term information
- SCTID:316586000
- EMAPA:18008
- FMA:13550
- FMA:76703
- BTO:0003626
- MA:0000112
- Wikipedia:Nucleus_pulposus
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
Function noyes: It functions to distribute hydraulic pressure in all directions within each disc under compressive loads.
nucleus pulposus of intervertebral disk
nucleus propulsus
nucleus propulsus of intervertebral disk
Term relations
- organ
- connective tissue
- ectoderm-derived structure
- mesoderm-derived structure
- has part some keratan sulfate
- has part some chondroitin sulfate
- contributes to morphology of some intervertebral disk
- part of some intervertebral disk
- develops from some notochord
- has part some chondrocyte
- has part some collection of collagen fibrils