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postcentral gyrus

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Component of the parietal lobe. The appearance and disappearance of the central sulcus were the rostral and caudal boundaries of the postcentral gyrus respectively. The medial and lateral boundaries were the lateral bank of the precentral gyrus and the lateral fissure and/or the medial bank of the superior parietal gyrus respectively (Christine Fennema-Notestine). [ ]

Term info

Label

postcentral gyrus

Synonyms
  • gyrus postcentralis
  • postcentral convolution
  • posterior central gyrus
  • postrolandic gyrus
database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim

latin term
gyrus postcentralis [ NeuroNames : 105 ]

latin term
gyrus centralis posterior [ NeuroNames : 105 ]

depicted by

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/Postcentral_gyrus.png

has related synonym

gyrus centralis posterior, somatosensory cortex, post central gyrus

id

UBERON:0002581