Medial eminence of floor of fourth ventricle

Not to be confused with Median eminence.
Medial eminence of floor of fourth ventricle

Rhomboid fossa. (Medial eminence visible but not labeled.)

Human caudal brainstem posterior view description (Eminentia medialis is #2)
Details
Latin eminentia medialis fossae rhomboideae
Identifiers
Gray's p.799
NeuroNames ancil-2137625571
Dorlands
/Elsevier		 e_06/12328434
TA A14.1.05.704
FMA 78479
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

In the human brain, the rhomboid fossa is divided into symmetrical halves by a median sulcus which reaches from the upper to the lower angles of the fossa and is deeper below than above. On either side of this sulcus is an elevation, the medial eminence, bounded laterally by a sulcus, the sulcus limitans.

In the superior part of the fossa the medial eminence has a width equal to that of the corresponding half of the fossa, but opposite the superior fovea it forms an elongated swelling, the colliculus facialis, which overlies the nucleus of the abducent nerve, and is, in part at least, produced by the internal genu of the facial nerve.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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