Cerebral crus
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| Brain: Cerebral crus | ||
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| Section through superior colliculus showing path of oculomotor nerve. | ||
| Latin | crus cerebri | |
| Gray's | subject #188 800 | |
| NeuroNames | hier-530 | |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | c_64/12268053 | |
The cerebral crus is the anterior portion of the cerebral peduncle which contains the motor tracts.
In some older texts, it is used as a synonym for the entire cerebral peduncle, not just the anterior portion of it.
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