Tuber cinereum

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Brain: Tuber cinereum
Base of brain. (Tuber cinerum visible at center.)
Gray's subject #189 813
NeuroNames hier-376
MeSH Tuber+cinereum
Dorlands/Elsevier t_21/12827470

The tuber cinereum is a hollow eminence of gray substance situated between the corpora mammillaria behind, and the optic chiasma in front.

Laterally it is continuous with the anterior perforated substances and anteriorly with a thin lamina, the lamina terminalis.

From the under surface of the tuber cinereum a hollow conical process, the infundibulum, projects downward and forward and is attached to the posterior lobe of the hypophysis.

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