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Term:
Parent Terms Term With Siblings Child Terms
spleen pulp +    
red pulp of spleen +  
white pulp of spleen +  
The parenchymatous tissue of the spleen that surrounds splenic blood vessels, consists of compact masses of lymphatic cells and is where foreign material removed from the blood is used to initiate an immune reaction that results in the production of antibodies.

Synonyms
Exact Synonyms: pulpa alba ;   spleen white pulp ;   splenic white pulp ;   white pulp
Related Synonyms: noduli lymphoidei splenici
Xrefs: CALOHA:TS-1264 ;   EMAPA:35809 ;   FMA:62805 ;   MA:0000762 ;   NCI:C12993 ;   UMLS:C0229686 ;   Wikipedia:White_pulp
External Ontologys: present_in_taxon NCBITaxon:9606
Definition Sources: MGI:csmith, MP:0002357

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