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inferior colliculus

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Part of the midbrain tectum, consisting of paired predominantly gray matter elevations on the dorsal aspect of the midbrain, located caudal to the superior colliculus, dorsal to the periaqueductal gray of the cerebral aqueduct and rostral to the cerebellum. According to Neuronames, the inferior colliculus comprises the central, pericentral and external nucleus and two predominantly white matter structures, the brachium of the inferior colliculus and the commissure of the inferior colliculus (MM). [ BIRNLEX:806 ]

Synonyms: posterior corpus quadrigeminum, caudal colliculus, inferior colliculi, posterior colliculus

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

plural term
inferior colliculi [ EV:0100246 ]

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Gray711.png

has related synonym

colliculus caudalis, corpus bigeminum posterioris, corpus bigeminalis caudalis, corpus quadrigeminum inferius, colliculus inferior

id

UBERON:0001946

prefLabel

Inferior colliculus

present in taxon

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