pontine tegmentum
In 4 atlases
Definition
Dorsal portion of the pons, containing cranial nervee nuclei, ascending and descending tracts and reticular nuclei. It is continuous with the reticular formation of the medulla (Carpenter, A Core Text of Neuroanatomy, 3rd ed, 1985, pg 133).
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Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Sub-structures
Neighbouring structures
- amygdalohippocampal area
- amygdaloid complex
- anterior amygdaloid area
- anterior cingulate gyrus
- anterior cortical nucleus
- anterior horn of lateral ventricle
- anterior nuclear complex of thalamus
- anterior olfactory nucleus
- anterior parahippocampal gyrus
- anterior segment of paracentral lobule
- atrium of lateral ventricle
- basal forebrain
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Identifiers
- TA2
- 5929
- TA98
- A14.1.05.301
- FMA
- 71108
- UBERON
- 0003023
- Wikidata
- Q7228298
