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frontal lobe
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Frontal lobe is the anterior-most of five lobes of the cerebral hemisphere. It is bounded by the central sulcus on its posterior border and by the longitudinal cerebral fissure on its medial border. [ ]
Term info
Label
frontal lobe
Synonyms
- lobi frontales
- lobus frontalis
Subsets
efo_slim
editor note
Many species don't have lobes but they do have frontal cortex. Lobe isn't a really well defined term though
has broad synonym
frontal region, regio frontalis
has narrow synonym
frontal cortex
has obo namespace
uberon
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UBERON:0016525
Term relations
Subclass of:
- lobe of cerebral hemisphere
- adjacent_to some temporal lobe
- contributes to morphology of some telencephalon
- adjacent_to some parietal lobe
Related from:
part of
- medial orbital sulcus
- lateral orbital sulcus
- orbital sulcus
- frontomarginal sulcus
- white matter of frontal lobe
- gyrus rectus
- orbital gyrus
- transverse frontopolar gyri complex
- rostral gyrus
- paracingulate gyrus
- orbital gyri complex
- arcuate sulcus
- anterior segment of paracentral lobule
- frontal cortex
- principal sulcus
- operculum of brain
- Ongur, Price, and Ferry (2003) prefrontal cortical partition scheme region
- intermediate frontal sulcus
- medial precentral sulcus
- frontal pole
- rostral sulcus