Neural tissue consisting of myelinated axons connecting grey matter areas of the central nervous system. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_matter https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]
Synonyms: white matter of neuraxis CNS tract/commissure neuronal white matter white substance
Term information
- TAO:0002142
- EMAPA:35927
- HBA:9218
- NLX:412
- TAO:0000145
- AEO:0001011
- NCIT:C33892
- NLXANAT:101177
- VHOG:0001764
- TAO:0002143
- UMLS:C0682708 (ncithesaurus:White_Matter)
- MESH:D066127 (https://github.com/biopragmatics/biomappings)
- PBA:294022044
- AEO:0000139
- Wikipedia:White_matter
- neuronames:2870
- MA:0001135
- FMA:83929
- ZFA:0001682
uberon_slim, vertebrate_core
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Grey_matter_and_white_matter_-_very_high_mag.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Spinal_nerve.svg
Cell part cluster consisting predominantly of neurites in the brain and the spinal cord[FMA:83929].
Multi-tissue structure comprised largely of myelinated axons.[TAO]
nlx_anat_101177 seems to have been lost in the transition from NIFGA to Neurolex
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]
Term relations
- central nervous system cell part cluster
- composed primarily of some myelinated nerve fiber
- part of some central nervous system
- fasciculus of brain
- gracile fasciculus
- spinocerebellar tract
- brachium of inferior colliculus
- nervous system lemniscus
- tract of spinal cord
- tract of brain
- spinothalamic tract
- funiculus of neuraxis
- hilum of neuraxis
- white matter lamina of neuraxis
- body of fornix
- tectospinal tract
- corticobulbar and corticospinal tracts
- corticospinal tract
- vestibulospinal tract
- longitudinal pontine fibers
- transverse pontine fibers
- neural decussation
- reticulospinal tract