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dorsal plus ventral thalamus

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Subcortical brain region consisting of paired gray matter bodies in the dorsal diencephalon and forming part of the lateral wall of the third ventricle of the brain. The thalamus represents the major portion of the diencephalon and is commonly divided into cellular aggregates known as nuclear groups.(MeSH). The dorsal topographic division of the interbrain. The macrodissected adult human thalamus was clearly illustrated by Vesalius in 1543 and the term as defined here was introduced by His in 1893. It includes the traditional epithalamus, dorsal thalamus, and ventral thalamus of Herrick (1910, pp. 494, 498). Also see Kuhlenbeck (1927, Ch. 9) and Jones (1985, p. 87). [ ]

Term info

Label

dorsal plus ventral thalamus

Synonyms
  • wider thalamus
database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

plural term
thalami [ VHOG : 0000657 ]

abbreviation
Th [ BIRNLEX : 954 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23375746 NIFSTD : NeuroNames_abbrevSource ]

latin term
thalamencephalon [ NeuroNames : 300 ]

latin term
thalamus opticus [ NeuroNames : 300 ]

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Brain_chrischan_thalamus.jpg

external definition

Part of the diencephalon consisting of a mass of connecting fibers which relay sensory information to the cerebral cortex.[AAO], One of a pair of large oval nervous structures made of gray matter and forming most of the lateral walls of the third ventricle of the brain and part of the diencephalon. [TFD][VHOG]

has broad synonym

Th, thalamus

has related synonym

thalamus opticus, thalamencephalon, thalami

homology notes

(...) the brain regions of tetrapods, the structures they contain, and their basic organizational features are the same as in fishes.[well established][VHOG]

id

UBERON:0001897