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medial superior olivary nucleus

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002782

One of two subnuclei of the superior olive located within the caudal pontine tegmentum. Appears as a parasagittal row of transversely oriented bipolar neurons in transverse sections of human, with elongated somata in humans and other primates and large caliber dendrites. [ BIRNLEX:1682 ]

Synonyms: main superior olivary nucleus, superior olive medial part, chief superior olivary nucleus, medial superior olive, principal superior olivary nucleus, chief nucleus of superior olive, superior olivary nucleus, medial part

Term info

database cross reference
  • BAMS:MSO
  • BIRNLEX:1682
  • UMLS:C0175430 (BIRNLEX:1682)
  • FMA:72473
  • Wikipedia:Superior_olivary_complex
  • DMBA:17262
  • FMA:226223
  • DHBA:12470
  • MBA:105
  • HBA:9184
  • BM:Pons-SOM
  • neuronames:572 (BIRNLEX:1682)
Subsets

uberon_slim, defined_by_cytoarchitecture

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Gray713.png

has related synonym

superior paraolivary nucleus, superior olivary complex, medial part, superior parolivary nucleus, MSO, nucleus laminaris, nucleus olivaris superior medialis

id

UBERON:0002782

prefLabel

Medial superior olivary nucleus, Superior paraolivary nucleus