Anterior part of the diencephalon that lies between the dorsal thalamus, hypothalamus, and tegmentum of the mesencephalon, including subthalamic nucleus, zona incerta, the fields of Forel, and the nucleus of ansa lenticularis[GO, modified]. [ http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0021539 ]
Synonyms: ventral thalamus subthalamus thalamus ventralis subthalamic region
Term information
- DMBA:16310
- DHBA:10461
- neuronames:434 (BIRNLEX:708)
- UMLS:C0152349 (ncithesaurus:Ventral_Thalamus)
- EV:0100223
- MA:0000181
- MESH:D020530
- BAMS:Ventral_thalamus
- BAMS:VT
- BAMS:VNT
- BM:Die-VTh
- BIRNLEX:708
- TAO:0000458
- EMAPA:35915
- BAMS:SbTh
- Wikipedia:Subthalamus
- CALOHA:TS-2048
- EHDAA2:0004470
- FMA:62010
- HBA:4504
- NCIT:C52731
- ZFA:0000458
- SCTID:279332007
- GAID:653
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas
Some sources treat the subthalamus as distinct from the thalamus, separated by the zona limitans intrathalamica. In MA, the ventral thalamus is part of the thalamus. Butler Hodos who identify a dorsal to ventral sequence consisting of epithalamus, dorsal thalamus, ventral thalamus and hypothalamus. We solve this by considering dorsal and ventral thalamus distinct, and the label thalamus as being ambiguous w.r.t thalamus proper (dorsal thalamus) or wider thalamus (dorsal plus ventral)
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_7742
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_117569
Term relations
- regional part of brain
- contributes to morphology of some diencephalon
- part of some dorsal plus ventral thalamus