brain white matter
The regions of the brain that are largely or entirely composed of myelinated nerve cell axons and contain few or no neural cell bodies or dendrites. [ MP:0008026 ]
Synonyms: white substance of brain, brain white matter of neuraxis, white matter of brain, brain white substance, white matter of neuraxis of brain
Term info
database cross reference
- NCIT:C49334
- EMAPA:35187
- UMLS:C1706995 (ncithesaurus:Brain_White_Matter)
- HBA:9218
- MA:0000820
Subsets
pheno_slim
has obo namespace
uberon
id
UBERON:0003544