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. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the white pulp of spleen is
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. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the white pulp of spleen is
It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the lymphatic & immune system. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.
What the white pulp of spleen connects to
The atlas records 10 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of spleen pulp.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the white pulp of spleen. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.
Also called
Also recorded as pulpa alba, spleen white pulp, splenic white pulp, white pulp and noduli lymphoidei splenici. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001959, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- A kind of: spleen pulp.
- Adjacent to: marginal zone of spleen.
- contains: penicillar arteriole, periarterial lymphatic sheath, spleen central arteriole, spleen primary B follicle and spleen secondary B follicle.
- contributes to morphology of: spleen, periarterial lymphatic sheath and spleen central arteriole.
Questions
Where is the white pulp of spleen?
It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the lymphatic & immune system. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.
What does the white pulp of spleen connect to?
A kind of: spleen pulp.
Is the white pulp of spleen the same in other species?
Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.