Component of the parietal lobe. The appearance and disappearance of the central sulcus were the rostral and caudal boundaries of the postcentral gyrus respectively. The medial and lateral boundaries were the lateral bank of the precentral gyrus and the lateral fissure and/or the medial bank of the superior parietal gyrus respectively (Christine Fennema-Notestine). [ BIRNLEX:1070 ]

Synonyms: postcentral convolution gyrus postcentralis postrolandic gyrus posterior central gyrus

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Term information

database cross reference
  • neuronames:105 (BIRNLEX:1070)
  • BIRNLEX:1070
  • EFO:0001383
  • HBA:4085
  • NCIT:C33346
  • SCTID:279167001
  • FMA:61896
  • BTO:0004354
  • UMLS:C0152302 (ncithesaurus:Postcentral_Gyrus)
  • Wikipedia:Postcentral_gyrus
  • BAMS:PoG
  • DHBA:12132
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

latin term
gyrus postcentralis [ NeuroNames:105 ]

latin term
gyrus centralis posterior [ NeuroNames:105 ]

depicted by

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Postcentral_gyrus.png

has related synonym

gyrus centralis posterior

somatosensory cortex

post central gyrus

id

UBERON:0002581

present in taxon

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