The term occipital white matter refers to the part of occipital lobe white matter that is located beneath the occipital gyrus as defined by stains for Nissl substance or myelin in the macaque ( BrainInfo-2001 ).

Also known as

Name	Language	Source	Source Citation	Source Title	Organism
Substantia medullaris occipitalis	Latin	NeuroNames-2000	NeuroNames is used as a term's source if no published source of the term has been found. In most cases, the term is an English translation of a commonly used Latin term. In some cases it is a Latin translation of an English term for which no published Latin equivalent has been found. Latin roots of words not found in the neuroanatomical literature are derived from Cassell's Latin Dictionary (Simpson-59).		Unspecified
ow	acronym	NeuroNames	University of Washington, Seattle, WA	NeuroNames	Unspecified
occipital white matter	English	NeuroNames-2000	NeuroNames is used as a term's source if no published source of the term has been found. In most cases, the term is an English translation of a commonly used Latin term. In some cases it is a Latin translation of an English term for which no published Latin equivalent has been found. Latin roots of words not found in the neuroanatomical literature are derived from Cassell's Latin Dictionary (Simpson-59).		Unspecified