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primary superior olive

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Part of the superior olivary complex of nuclei in the caudal pontine tegmentum, situated within the trapezoid body in humans. (Brodal, Neurological Anatomy, 3rd edition, 1981, pg 617). In many species, it comprises a medial superior olivary nucleus and a lateral superior olivary nucleus. [ BIRNLEX:900 ]

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database cross reference
  • BAMS:SOl
  • BIRNLEX:900
  • DHBA:12468
  • UMLS:C0228444
  • HBA:9182
  • neuronames:570
UBPROP 0000012

Wikipedia includes Medial nucleus of the trapezoid body. Wikipedia:Superior_olivary_complex#Primary_nuclei

UBPROP 0000013

many sources refer to this simply as the 'superior olive' or the 'superior olivary nucleus'. However, this is confusing as superior olive is sometimes used to denote the full SOC, which includes periolvary nuclei[https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/631]

has broad synonym

superior olive

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UBERON:0022434