Term Name: cerebellum
Synonyms:
Definition: Brain structure derived from the anterior hindbrain, and perhaps including posterior midbrain. The cerebellum plays a role in somatic motor function, the control of muscle tone, and balance. In zebrafish, with the exception of the cerebellum, the ventral remainder of the metencephalon can be separated only arbitrarily from the more caudal myelencephalic portion of the medulla oblongata and thus these are not distinguished here.
Appears at: Segmentation:26+ somites (22.0h-24.0h)
Evident until: Adult (90d-730d, breeding adult)
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000100]

Relationships
develops from: upper rhombic lip
is part of: hindbrain
has parts: cerebellar white matter cerebellovestibular tract corpus cerebelli medial octavolateralis nucleus rostral cerebellar tract valvula cerebelli vestibulolateralis lobe
is a type of: multi-tissue structure

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