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cerebral peduncle

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Synonym for macrodissected adult human tegmentum (Vicq d'Azyr, 1784; Swanson, 2000); pp. 555-556. Later used thus by for example His (1893b, p. 178), Herrick (1915, p. 160), Strong & Elwyn (1943, p. 17), Carpenter (1976, p. 367), Williams & Warwick (1980, p. 935). [ ]

Term info

Label

cerebral peduncle

Synonyms
  • cerebral peduncle
  • peduncle of midbrain
  • pedunculus cerebri
database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, human_reference_atlas

RO 0002175

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606

comment

Neuronames includes the substantia nigra, crus cerebri and midbrain tegmentum as substructures of the cerebral peduncle; the mouse atlases only include the crus cerebri as the cerebral peduncle (MM)

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Gray689.png

has related synonym

tegmentum, cerebral peduncle (archaic), pedunculi cerebri, pedunculus cerebralis, pedunculus cerebri, cerebal peduncle

id

UBERON:0002623