Uber Anatomy Ontology

Last uploaded: January 20, 2022
Preferred Name

white matter

Synonyms

white substance

substantia alba

white mater

white matter of neuraxis

CNS white matter

CNS tracts and commissures

CNS tract/commissure

neuronal white matter

Definitions

Neural tissue consisting of myelinated axons connecting grey matter areas of the central nervous system.

ID

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002316

composed primarily of

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0006135

database_cross_reference

TAO:0000145

ZFA:0001682

EMAPA:35927

TAO:0002143

AEO:0001011

FMA:83929

AEO:0000139

UMLS:C0682708

VHOG:0001764

TAO:0002142

PBA:294022044

OpenCyc:Mx4rwOAsDZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA

MA:0001135

HBA:9218

NCIT:C33892

http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu/centraldirectory.aspx?ID=2870

http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0682708

http://uri.neuinfo.org/nif/nifstd/nlx_anat_101177

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_matter

http://uri.neuinfo.org/nif/nifstd/nlx_412

definition

Neural tissue consisting of myelinated axons connecting grey matter areas of the central nervous system.

depicted_by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Grey_matter_and_white_matter_-_very_high_mag.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Spinal_nerve.svg

external_definition

Multi-tissue structure comprised largely of myelinated axons.[TAO]

Cell part cluster consisting predominantly of neurites in the brain and the spinal cord[FMA:83929].

external_ontology_notes

nlx_anat_101177 seems to have been lost in the transition from NIFGA to Neurolex

has_exact_synonym

white substance

white matter of neuraxis

CNS tract/commissure

neuronal white matter

has_obo_namespace

uberon

has_related_synonym

substantia alba

white mater

CNS white matter

CNS tracts and commissures

homology_notes

The myelination of axons by glial cells was the last major step in the evolution of cells in the vertebrate nervous system, and white-matter tracts are key to the architecture of the mammalian brain.[well established][VHOG]

id

UBERON:0002316

in_subset

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon/core#uberon_slim

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon/core#vertebrate_core

label

white matter

notation

UBERON:0002316

prefLabel

white matter

subClassOf

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0011215

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