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brainstem

Go to external page http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002298

'brainstem' is a loose term that sometimes refers to the ventral parts o the brain except for any part of the telencephalon - sometimes it includes the diencephalon or subpallial telencephalon structures (ISBN:0471888893). Here we use it in a more restriced sense, to include only the medulla oblongata, pons (when present) and the midbrain tegmentum (following the ZFA definitions).

Term info

Label

brainstem

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, loose_concept, vertebrate_core

definition

Stalk-like part of the brain that includes amongst its parts the medulla oblongata of the hindbrain and the tegmentum of the midbrain[ZFA,MP,generalized].

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Gray719.png

external definition

Multi-tissue structure that has as its parts the medulla oblongata of the hindbrain and the tegmentum of the midbrain[ZFA,adopted][ZFA:0001707]., the stalk-like part of the brain that comprises the midbrain (aka mesencephalon), the pons (aka pons Varolii), and the medulla oblongata, and connects the cerebral hemispheres with the cervical spinal cord[MP], Multi-tissue structure that has as its parts the medulla oblongata of the hindbrain and the tegmentum of the midbrain.[TAO]

has exact synonym

truncus encephali, brain stem

has related synonym

lamina medullaris incompleta pallidi, lamella pallidi incompleta, accessory medullary lamina of pallidum, lamina medullaris accessoria, truncus encephalicus, lamina pallidi incompleta

id

UBERON:0002298

imported from

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon.owl, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cl.owl

mutually spatially disjoint with

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002037, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002314, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001890

spatially disjoint from

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002037, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002314, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001890