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Brain: Facial colliculus | ||
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Rhomboid fossa. (Colliculus facialis labeled at center left.) | ||
Human caudal brainstem posterior view (Colliculus facialis is #3) | ||
Latin | colliculus facialis | |
Gray's | subject #187 799 | |
Part of | ||
Components | ||
Artery | ||
Vein | ||
BrainInfo/UW | hier-621 | |
MeSH | [1] |
The facial colliculus is an elevated area located on the dorsal pons. It is formed by motor fibres of the facial nerve as they loop over the abducens nucleus. Thus a lesion to the facial colliculus would result in facial muscle paralysis.
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External links[]
- http://www.med.yale.edu/caim/cnerves/cn6/cn6_2.html
- http://www.neuroanatomy.wisc.edu/virtualbrain/BrainStem/14CNVII.html
- http://www.ib.amwaw.edu.pl/anatomy/atlas/image_04be.htm
Ventricular system, rhombencephalon, met- and myel-: fourth ventricle (TA A14.1.05.701–726, GA 9.797) | ||||
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Roof (dorsal) |
rostral: Superior medullary velum (Frenulum) caudal: Inferior medullary velum · Taenia of fourth ventricle | |||
Floor/rhomboid fossa (ventral) |
rostral (pons): Facial colliculus · Locus coeruleus caudal (medulla}: Vagal trigone · Hypoglossal trigone · Area postrema · Obex Medial eminence · Sulcus limitans | |||
Apertures | ||||
Other |
Tela chorioidea of fourth ventricle · Fastigium | |||
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