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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). [ ]

Term info

Label

spinal cord

database cross reference
Subsets

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

RO 0002171

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

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

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