spinal cord

spinal cord

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002240

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 ]

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VHOG:0000601
EHDAA2:0001255
OpenCyc:Mx4rvVjjk5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
XAO:0000020
BAMS:Spinal
BTO:0001279
CALOHA:TS-0953
BM:SpC
DHBA:12890
EMAPA:17577
Wikipedia:Spinal_cord
neuronames:22 (BIRNLEX:1709)
FMA:7647
TAO:0000075
MESH:D013116
MIAA:0000183
GAID:695
ZFA:0000075
UMLS:C0037925 (ncithesaurus:Spinal_Cord)
MAT:0000183
EHDAA:2863
EV:0100316
EFO:0000110
SCTID:180959008
BIRNLEX:1709
AAO:0010151
BAMS:SP
MA:0000216
UMLS:C0037925 (BIRNLEX:1709)
NCIT:C12464
DMBA:17651

Subsets

uberon_slim, cumbo, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, organ_slim, major_organ

RO 0002171

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000955

UBPROP 0000001

Part of the central nervous system which descends from the hindbrain within the vertebral column.[AAO]

UBPROP 0000003

(...) 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]

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Spinal_cord_direv.svg

editor note

TODO - add superclass to unify with VNC?

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uberon

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spinal medulla

fissura cerebro-cerebellaris

medulla spinalis

fissura cerebrocerebellaris

SpC