HABENULA

Habenula

In neuroanatomy, habenula originally denoted the stalk of the pineal gland, but gradually came to refer to a neighboring group of nerve cells with which the pineal gland was believed to be associated, the habenular nucleus. The habenular nucleus is a set of well-conserved structures in all vertebrate animals.

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habenula

Noun

  1. A circumscript mass of cells in the caudal and dorsal aspect of the dorsal thalamus


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