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Medial lemniscus
| Name: | Medial lemniscus |
| Description: | Fiber tract arising predominantly from neurons in the nucleus gracilis and nucleus cuneatus in the medulla, projecting to thalamus. Fibers cross in the decussation of the medial lemniscus. |
| Synonym(s): | Lemniscus medial |
| Is part of: | white matter |
| Abbreviation: | ml |
| Super-category: | Nerve tract |
| Id: | birnlex_887 |
| Link to OWL / RDF: | Download this content as OWL/RDF |
| Brain regions that send axons into this region: | Gracile nucleus, Cuneate nucleus |
| Brain regions that receive axons from this region: | Ventral posterolateral nucleus of thalamus |
Parts of Medial lemniscus
- View location of medial lemniscus in Brainmaps.org
- This visualization was created by the Scalable Brain Atlas group and is based on the Rhesus Monkey - Paxinos et al. 2000
Notes
This page uses this default form:PONS_brain_region
- Connectivity information came from: http://www.neuroanatomy.wisc.edu/virtualbrain/BrainStem/04NGNC.html
Facts about Medial lemniscusRDF feed
| Abbrev | ml + |
| AfferentProjections | Gracile nucleus +, and Cuneate nucleus + |
| Created | 8 October 2006 + |
| CurationStatus | uncurated + |
| Definition | Fiber tract arising predominantly from neurons in the nucleus gracilis and nucleus cuneatus in the medulla, projecting to thalamus. Fibers cross in the decussation of the medial lemniscus. |
| EditorialNote | To truly implement these mereotological as … To truly implement these mereotological assertions correctly, we will need to use OWL object properties and OWL versions of the OBO relations such as "contains/is_contained_by", "is_adjacent_to", "intersects_with", etc.. UNION will suffice for now to get the point across, but it's not really establishing a spatial relation per se., Note that setting this class equal to the union of the three medial lemnisci from each of the foundational brain regions may not imply the meaning we intend. To make such an assertion - A + B + C = D - is to say an instance of a Medial lemniscus is fully defined by the union of an instance of each of one of these three classes. Those three instances combined would fully define in toto a valid instance of medial lemniscus. Setting a necessary & sufficient (i.e., "defining") assertion closes the "open world" assumption for this class. Therefore, no instance that isn't one of those three classes could be a part of a medial lemniscus. We may also need an existential condition to the effect of, "For every Medial lemniscus, it will contain one each of an instance of a medial lemniscus of midbrain, an instance of a medial lemniscus of pons, and an instance of a medial lemniscus of medulla (BB). nce of a medial lemniscus of medulla (BB). |
| EfferentProjections | Ventral posterolateral nucleus of thalamus + |
| Id | birnlex_887 + |
| Is part of | White matter + |
| Label | Medial lemniscus + |
| ModifiedDate | 25 March 2013 + |
| Page has default formThis property is a special property in this wiki. | PONS brain region + |
| SuperCategory | Nerve tract + |
| Synonym | Lemniscus medial + |