Term: spinal cord axon ensheathment in central nervous system
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Name: spinal cord
Synonyms: medulla spinalis, spinal cord structure
Definition:
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000075]
Name: axon ensheathment in central nervous system
Synonyms: ensheathment of axons in central nervous system
Definition: The process in which a glial cell membrane closes around an axon in the central nervous system. This can be a myelinating or a non-myelinating neuron-glial interaction.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0032291]    QuickGO    AmiGO