Sublingual nucleus

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Brain: Sublingual nucleus
Latin nucleus sublingualis
Gray's subject #187 784
NeuroNames hier-760
Dorlands/Elsevier n_11/12583517

In the substance of the formatio reticularis are two small nuclei of gray matter. The one near the dorsal aspect of the hilus of the inferior olivary nucleus is called the Sublingual nucleus (inferior central nucleus, nucleus of Roller.)

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