The brain is the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate, and most invertebrate, animals. Some primitive animals such as jellyfish and starfish have a decentralized nervous system without a brain, while sponges lack any nervous system at all. In vertebrates, the brain is located in the head, protected by the skull and close to the primary sensory apparatus of vision, hearing, balance, taste, and smell[WP]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/300 ]
Term information
- EHDAA:2641
- BAMS:Brain
- XAO:0000010
- MIAA:0000098
- EV:0100164
- Wikipedia:Brain
- BIRNLEX:796
- ZFA:0000008
- MA:0000168
- EMAPA:16894
- EHDAA2:0000183
- PBA:3999
- MBA:997
- BAMS:Br
- EHDAA:6485
- NCIT:C12439
- MBA:8
- AAO:0010478
- galen:Brain
- CALOHA:TS-0095
- MAT:0000098
- HBA:4005
- MESH:D001921
- TAO:0000008
- GAID:571
- EFO:0000302
- DHBA:10155
- ABA:Brain
- VHOG:0000157
- BILA:0000135
- FMA:50801
- SCTID:258335003
- BTO:0000142
cumbo, uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, major_organ, human_reference_atlas
the brain
synganglion
suprasegmental structures
suprasegmental levels of nervous system
encephalon
Term relations
- ectoderm-derived structure
- organ
- existence ends during some fully formed stage
- composed primarily of some neural cell
- contributes to morphology of some nervous system
- part of some central nervous system
- BSPO_0000123 some multicellular organism
- immediate transformation of some future brain
- brain endothelium
- forebrain-midbrain boundary
- brain microvascular endothelial cell
- brain macroglial cell
- vasculature of brain
- midbrain-hindbrain boundary
- aggregate regional part of brain
- brain gray matter
- brain white matter
- brain meninx
- smooth muscle cell of the brain vasculature
- fasciculus of brain
- regional part of brain