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dorsal nucleus of medial geniculate body

Term ID
UBERON:0002758
Synonyms
  • DMG
  • dorsal medial geniculate nucleus
  • dorsal nucleus of the medial geniculate body
  • medial geniculate complex dorsal part
  • medial geniculate complex, dorsal part
  • medial geniculate nucleus dorsal part
  • medial geniculate nucleus, dorsal part
  • MGD
  • nucleus corporis geniculati medialis, pars dorsalis
  • nucleus dorsalis coporis geniculati medialis
  • nucleus geniculatus medialis fibrosus (hassler)
  • nucleus geniculatus medialis pars dorsalis
Definition
Dorsal division of the medial geniculate nucleus, as first defined by Morest (1964) in the cat, but also described in the rat. It fills all but the medial edge of the posterior tip in cat, and joins the lateral thalamic nucleus anteriorly (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1261345/?page=3)
References
Ontology
Uberon Ontology
Relationships
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is a type of
inverse disjoint_from
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