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Circumventricular organs — Brain: Circumventricular organs Scheme showing relations of the ventricles to the surface of the brain. Circumventricular organs primarily surround the third ventricle and fourth ventricle. Gray s … Wikipedia
circumventricular — Around or in the area of a ventricle, as are the c. organs. * * * cir·cum·ven·tric·u·lar (sur″kəm ven trikґu lər) surrounding a ventricle, particularly in the brain … Medical dictionary
circumventricular — adj. surrounding a ventricle of the body, located around the ventricles of the brain … English contemporary dictionary
circumventricular organs — several small structures located around the edges of the third and fourth ventricles, lacking the regular blood brain barrier and thus serving as significant sites for neural endocrine interaction. They include the area postrema, median eminence … Medical dictionary
Subfornical organ — Infobox Brain Name = PAGENAME Latin = organum subfornicale GraySubject = GrayPage = Caption = Mesal aspect of a brain sectioned in the median sagittal plane. (Subfornical organ not labeled, but fornix and foramen of Monro are both labeled near… … Wikipedia
organ — Any part of the body exercising a specific function, as of respiration, secretion, or digestion. SYN: organum [TA], organon. [L. organum, fr. G. organon, a tool, instrument] accessory organs 1. SYN … Medical dictionary
Hypothalamus — Brain: Hypothalamus Location of the human hypothalamus … Wikipedia
Median eminence — Not to be confused with Medial eminence. Brain: Median eminence Median eminence is ME , at bottom center, in light green. Latin eminentia mediana hypothalami NeuroNames … Wikipedia
Organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis — Infobox Brain Name = PAGENAME Latin = GraySubject = GrayPage = Caption = Caption2 = IsPartOf = Components = Artery = Vein = BrainInfoType = hier BrainInfoNumber = 366 MeshName = MeshNumber = DorlandsPre = o 06 DorlandsSuf = 12596306 The organum… … Wikipedia
nervous system, human — ▪ anatomy Introduction system that conducts stimuli from sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord and that conducts impulses back to other parts of the body. As with other higher vertebrates, the human nervous system has two main… … Universalium
