Part of the central nervous system located in the vertebral canal continuous with and caudal to the brain; demarcated from brain by plane of foramen magnum. It is composed of an inner core of gray matter in which nerve cells predominate, and an outer layer of white matter in which myelinated nerve fibers predominate, and surrounds the central canal. (CUMBO). [ BIRNLEX:1709 ]
Term information
- GAID:695
- BAMS:Spinal
- BAMS:SP
- XAO:0000020
- DMBA:17651
- MIAA:0000183
- AAO:0010151
- EMAPA:17577
- VHOG:0000601
- EHDAA:2863
- BTO:0001279
- MA:0000216
- SCTID:180959008
- MAT:0000183
- EFO:0000110
- CALOHA:TS-0953
- FMA:7647
- DHBA:12890
- EV:0100316
- BM:SpC
- neuronames:22 (BIRNLEX:1709)
- NCIT:C12464
- EHDAA2:0001255
- TAO:0000075
- ZFA:0000075
- Wikipedia:Spinal_cord
- UMLS:C0037925 (ncithesaurus:Spinal_Cord)
- BIRNLEX:1709
- MESH:D013116
uberon_slim, cumbo, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, organ_slim, major_organ, human_reference_atlas
Part of the central nervous system which descends from the hindbrain within the vertebral column.[AAO]
spinal medulla
fissura cerebro-cerebellaris
fissura cerebrocerebellaris
medulla spinalis
SpC
cerebro-cerebellar fissure
cerebrocerebellar fissure
spinal cord structure
(...) at some stage of its development, every chordate exhibits five uniquely derived characters or synapomorphies of the group: (...) (4) a single, tubular nerve cord that is located dorsal to the notochord (...) (reference 1); The neural tube is destined to differentiate into the brain and spinal cord (the central nervous system) (reference 2).[well established][VHOG]
Term relations
- structure with developmental contribution from neural crest
- cellular anatomical structure
- cavitated compound organ
- ectoderm-derived structure
- dorsal region element
- regional part of nervous system
- cavitated compound organ
- immediate transformation of some future spinal cord
- develops from some posterior neural tube
- part of some central nervous system
- has developmental contribution from some spinal cord neural crest
- has part some spinal cord interneuron