Neural tissue consisting of myelinated axons connecting grey matter areas of the central nervous system. [ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_matter ]
Synonyms: white matter of neuraxis CNS tract/commissure neuronal white matter white substance
Term information
- MA:0001135
- AEO:0000139
- UMLS:C0682708 (ncithesaurus:White_Matter)
- Wikipedia:White_matter
- NLXANAT:101177
- TAO:0002142
- NCIT:C33892
- PBA:294022044
- FMA:83929
- TAO:0002143
- VHOG:0001764
- ZFA:0001682
- AEO:0001011
- HBA:9218
- TAO:0000145
- MESH:D066127
- neuronames:2870
- EMAPA:35927
- NLX:412
uberon_slim, vertebrate_core
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Grey_matter_and_white_matter_-_very_high_mag.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Spinal_nerve.svg
Cell part cluster consisting predominantly of neurites in the brain and the spinal cord[FMA:83929].
Multi-tissue structure comprised largely of myelinated axons.[TAO]
nlx_anat_101177 seems to have been lost in the transition from NIFGA to Neurolex
The myelination of axons by glial cells was the last major step in the evolution of cells in the vertebrate nervous system, and white-matter tracts are key to the architecture of the mammalian brain.[well established][VHOG]
Term relations
- central nervous system cell part cluster
- composed primarily of some myelinated nerve fiber
- has part some myelinated nerve fiber