Infundibular recess
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| Brain: Infundibular recess | ||
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| Median sagittal section of brain of human embryo of three months. (Recessus infundibuli visible labeled at bottom left.) | ||
| Latin | recessus infundibuli | |
| Gray's | subject #189 816 | |
| NeuroNames | hier-441 | |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | r_05/12696677 | |
The floor of the third ventricle is prolonged downward as a funnel-shaped recess, the infundibular recess, into the infundibulum, and to the apex of the latter the hypophysis is attached.
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