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

Subsets

cumbo, uberon_slim, 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?

has related synonym

spinal medulla, fissura cerebro-cerebellaris, medulla spinalis, fissura cerebrocerebellaris, SpC, cerebro-cerebellar fissure, cerebrocerebellar fissure, spinal cord structure

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uberon

UBERON:0002240

prefLabel

Spinal cord