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metathalamus

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002704


The metathalamus is a composite structure of the thalamus, consisting of the medial geniculate nucleus and the lateral geniculate nucleus. [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metathalamus ]

Synonyms: geniculate thalamic group, geniculate group of the dorsal thalamus, nuclei metathalami

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim

RO 0002171

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002776, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002144

UBPROP 0000012

we follow FMA in making this a subtype of nucleus, but in fact it is a group containing two nuclei

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/ThalamicNuclei.png

has related synonym

corpora geniculata, geniculate group of dorsal thalamus, geniculate thalamic nuclear group (metathalamus)

id

UBERON:0002704

prefLabel

Metathalamus