A cluster of neurons that is the most prominent longitudinally extending condensed part of a nervous system. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21062451 ]
Synonyms: nerve cord true nerve cord
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Term information
database
cross reference
- BTO:0001656
- BILA:0000136
curator note
some species have multiple longitudinal nerve cords; this class refers to the most prominent one, which is dorsal in chordates and ventral in others.
Term relations
Subclass of:
- ectoderm-derived structure
- has quality some multicellular
- part of some nervous system
- bearer of some mass
- bearer of some maximally connected
- only in taxon some Bilateria
- bearer of some 3-D shape
- bearer of some multicellular
- existence starts during or after some zygote stage
- part of some multicellular organism
- has part some cell
- end stage some death stage