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spinal cord

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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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Term information

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Subsets

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

latin term
fissura cerebro-cerebellaris [ NeuroNames : 22 ]
latin term
fissura cerebrocerebellaris [ NeuroNames : 22 ]
definition
  • 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).
depicted by
  • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Spinal_cord_direv.svg
editor note
  • TODO - add superclass to unify with VNC?
external definition
  • Part of the central nervous system which descends from the hindbrain within the vertebral column.[AAO]
has related synonym
  • spinal cord structure
  • cerebrocerebellar fissure
  • SpC
  • medulla spinalis
  • fissura cerebrocerebellaris
  • spinal medulla
  • fissura cerebro-cerebellaris
  • cerebro-cerebellar fissure
homology notes
  • (...) 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]
id
  • UBERON:0002240
mutually spatially disjoint with
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000955

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