White matter of spinal cord

System Nervous
SNOMED CT 279436006

White matter of spinal cord

Definition

The regions of the spinal cord that are largely or entirely composed of myelinated nerve cell axons and contain few or no neural cell bodies or dendrites.

Also known as spinal cord white matter, spinal cord white matter of neuraxis, spinal cord white substance, substantia alba medullae spinalis, white matter of neuraxis of spinal cord, white substance of spinal cord — per UBERON

The White matter of spinal cord is a part of the Nervous.

Also identified as