Cerebral crus

Cerebral crus
	Obtuse section (perpendicular to the brainstem) through the superior colliculus showing label for cerebral crus at lower left.
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Identifiers
Latin	crus cerebri
MeSH	D065843
NeuroNames	539
NeuroLex ID	birnlex_1218
TA	A14.1.06.005; A14.1.09.259
FMA	72464
	Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

The cerebral crus (crus cerebri) is the anterior portion of the cerebral peduncle which contains the motor tracts, travelling from the cerebral cortex to the pons and spine. The plural of which is cerebral crura. It forms the majority of the basis pedunculi in the midbrain.

In some older texts this is called the cerebral peduncle but presently it is usually limited to just the anterior white matter portion of it.

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Human brain frontal (coronal) section

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References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 800 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

External links

Atlas image: n2a2p1 at the University of Michigan Health System
Atlas image: n1a5p3 at the University of Michigan Health System
NIF Search - Cerebral Crus via the Neuroscience Information Framework

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