Dorsal portion of the pons, containing cranial nervee nuclei, ascending and descending tracts and reticular nuclei. It is continuous with the reticular formation of the medulla (Carpenter, A Core Text of Neuroanatomy, 3rd ed, 1985, pg 133). [ BIRNLEX:923 ]
Synonyms: dorsal pons tegmental portion of pons dorsal portion of pons tegmentum of pons
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- SCTID:362401009
- BIRNLEX:923
- BAMS:PTg
- HBA:9135
- Wikipedia:Pontine_tegmentum
- FMA:71108
- DHBA:12416
Subsets
uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas
Term relations
Subclass of:
- organ part
- ectoderm-derived structure
- has part some superior olivary complex
- has part some locus ceruleus
- has part some pontine raphe nucleus
- has part some superior salivatory nucleus
- part of some pons