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cingulate gyrus

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002967

One of the convolutions on the medial surface of the cerebral hemisphere. It surrounds the rostral part of the brain and interhemispheric commissure and forms part of the limbic system. (MSH) One of three essential structures comprising the limbic lobe, the other two being the hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus. (CSP). [ BIRNLEX:798 ]

Synonyms: falciform lobe, upper limbic gyrus, cingulate area, cingulate region

Term info

database cross reference
  • BTO:0003976
  • DHBA:12156
  • UMLS:C0018427 (BIRNLEX:798)
  • BM:Tel-CG
  • BAMS:CG
  • HBA:4220
  • BAMS:CgG
  • neuronames:159 (BIRNLEX:798)
  • FMA:62434
  • UMLS:C0018427 (ncithesaurus:Cingulate_Gyrus)
  • Wikipedia:Cingulate_gyrus
  • SCTID:279208003
  • BIRNLEX:798
  • NCIT:C96217
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Gray727_cingulate_gyrus.png

has related synonym

cingular gyrus, gyri cinguli

id

UBERON:0002967

prefLabel

Cingulate gyrus

present in taxon

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