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posterior nuclear complex of thalamus

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Part of thalamus comprising ill defined cellular groups in the caudal thalamus at the meso-diencephalic junction. It is not a homogeneous structure but consists of several distinct cellular groups, including the suprageniculate and limitans nuclei, the magnocellular division of the medial geniculate body, portions of the pulvinar nucleus and an area of mixed cell types intercalated between the ventroposterior nucleus and the nucleus lateral posterior (Brodal, Neurological Anatomy, 3rd ed., 1981, pg 97). [ BIRNLEX:1467 ]

Synonyms: posterior complex of thalamus caudal thalamic nucleus posterior nuclear complex posterior complex of the thalamus posterior thalamic nuclear group nuclei posteriores thalami posterior nuclear group of thalamus posterior nuclear complex of thalamus posterior thalamic nucleus posterior nucleus of dorsal thalamus

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

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Subsets

vertebrate_core

abbreviation
PNC [ BIRNLEX:1467 NIFSTD:NeuroNames_abbrevSource ]

editor note

ZFA grouping dubious

has related synonym

parieto-occipital

id

UBERON:0002709

mutually spatially disjoint with

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0003033

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002983