| Term: | telencephalon medial-lateral axis |
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| Note: | This page represents a term created by the combination ("post-composition") of two ontology terms. For more information on the individual terms, click the hyperlinked name. |
| Name: | telencephalon |
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| Definition: | The anterior and dorsal forebrain neuromere. In ray-finned fishes and most pronounced in teleosts the roof plate of the embryonic telencephalon extends laterally with the effect that the paired alar plates forming the hemispheric walls roll out lateroventrally in a process called eversion. This is unlike the development in other vertebrate groups. From Neuroanatomy of the Zebrafish Brain. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000079] |
| Name: | medial-lateral axis |
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| Synonyms: | M-L axis, medio-lateral axis, mediolateral axis, ML axis, proximal-distal axis |
| Definition: | An axis that extends from the center of organism to one or other side. |
| Ontology: | Spatial Ontology [BSPO:0001001] |