The culmen is the portion of the anterior vermis adjacent to the primary fissure of cerebellum. The culmen and the anterior parts of the quadrangular lobules form the lobus culminis[WP]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culmen_(cerebellum) ]
Synonyms: cerebellum culmen culmen lobule neuraxis culmen
Term information
- neuronames:659
- SCTID:89649002
- BIRNLEX:926
- BAMS:Cul
- SCTID:279384001
- FMA:83886
- BAMS:CUL
- MBA:928
The culmen lobule (lobules IV/V) is a single structure in humans, but it is divided by the intraculminate fissure in many rodents. In some mouse strains such as SLJ/J, the intraculminate fissure is absent, in some strains such as DBA/2J it is present, and other strains (C57BL/10J and BALB/cJ) exhibit considerable variablility (PMID: 1953602).[MP]