precentral gyrus

Definition

Component of the frontal lobe. The appearance and disappearance of the central sulcus is the rostral and caudal boundaries of the precentral gyrus respectively. The medial boundary is specific frontal gyri (superior, middle and inferior) whereas the lateral boundary is the medial bank of the central sulcus (Christine Fennema-Notestine).

Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0

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

• left primary motor cortex
• right primary motor cortex

Neighbouring structures

• angular gyrus
• cingulate gyrus
• fusiform gyrus
• inferior frontal gyrus
• inferior temporal gyrus
• middle frontal gyrus
• middle temporal gyrus
• orbital gyrus
• parahippocampal gyrus
• postcentral gyrus
• superior frontal gyrus
• supramarginal gyrus

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Identifiers

TA2

5458

TA98

A14.1.09.119

FMA

61894

UBERON

0002703

Wikidata

Q5272263