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ventral thalamus

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Anterior part of the diencephalon that lies between the dorsal thalamus, hypothalamus, and tegmentum of the mesencephalon, including subthalamic nucleus, zona incerta, the fields of Forel, and the nucleus of ansa lenticularis[GO, modified]. [ http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0021539 ]

Term info

Label

ventral thalamus

Synonyms
  • subthalamic region
  • subthalamus
  • thalamus ventralis
  • ventral thalamus
database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

abbreviation
SbTh [ BIRNLEX : 708 NIFSTD : NeuroNames_abbrevSource ]

latin term
thalamus ventralis [ BIRNLEX : 708 ]

comment

Some sources treat the subthalamus as distinct from the thalamus, separated by the zona limitans intrathalamica. In MA, the ventral thalamus is part of the thalamus. Butler Hodos who identify a dorsal to ventral sequence consisting of epithalamus, dorsal thalamus, ventral thalamus and hypothalamus. We solve this by considering dorsal and ventral thalamus distinct, and the label thalamus as being ambiguous w.r.t thalamus proper (dorsal thalamus) or wider thalamus (dorsal plus ventral)

has related synonym

prethalamus, perithalamus

id

UBERON:0001900

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_7742, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_117569