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Brain: Interthalamic adhesion
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Dissection showing the ventricles of the brain. (Interthalamic adhesion labeled as Massa Intermedia at center right.)
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Coronal section of brain through intermediate mass of third ventricle.
Latin adhesio interthalamica
Gray's subject #
Part of thalamus
Components
Artery
Vein
BrainInfo/UW hier-284
MeSH [1]

The medial surface of the thalamus constitutes the upper part of the lateral wall of the third ventricle, and is connected to the corresponding surface of the opposite thalamus by a flattened gray band, the Interthalamic adhesion (massa intermedia, middle commissure, gray commissure).

This mass averages about 1 cm. in its antero-posterior diameter: it sometimes consists of two parts and occasionally is absent. The interthalamic adhesion is found in 70-80% of humansneed citation. When absent in development, no noticable deficit has been observed.

It contains nerve cells and nerve fibers; a few of the latter may cross the middle line, but most of them pass toward the middle line and then curve lateralward on the same side.

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