The epithelial tube that develops from the neural plate to form the embryo’s central nervous system and from which the brain and spinal cord develop.
A tube lined with ectodermal cells running the length of an embryo, which develops into the brain and spinal cord.
In the embryo, a tube of ectodermal tissue from which the brain and spinal cord develop.
The embryological structure from which the brain and spinal cord develop. It is a tube of ectodermal tissue formed when two edges of a groove in a plate of primitive neural tissue (neural plate) come together and fuse. Failure of normal fusion results in a number of congenital defects.
Tube formed from fusion of the neural folds from which the brain and spinal cord arise.