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... > Nervous System > Central Nervous System > Brain > Brain Stem > Rhombencephalon > Metencephalon > Pons > Pontine Tegmentum > Raphe Nuclei
... > Nervous System > Central Nervous System > Brain > Brain Stem > Mesencephalon > Cerebral Peduncle > Tegmentum Mesencephali > Raphe Nuclei
... > Nervous System > Central Nervous System > Brain > Brain Stem > Rhombencephalon > Myelencephalon > Medulla Oblongata > Raphe Nuclei

Preferred term

Raphe Nuclei  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Caudal Linear Nucleus of the Raphe
  • Central Nucleus, Superior
  • Incertus, Nucleus
  • Interfascicular Nucleus
  • Nucleus Incertus
  • Nucleus, Interfascicular
  • Nucleus, Superior Central
  • Rostral Linear Nucleus of Raphe
  • Superior Central Nucleus

Scope note

  • Collections of small neurons centrally scattered among many fibers from the level of the TROCHLEAR NUCLEUS in the midbrain to the hypoglossal area in the MEDULLA OBLONGATA.

History note

  • 85(78); was see under BRAIN STEM 1978-84

In other languages

  • sauman tumakkeet

    Finnish

  • nuclei raphes
  • Raphen tumake
  • Raphen tumakkeet
  • sauman tumake
  • Rafekärnor

    Swedish

  • Nuclei raphes
  • Serotoninkärnor

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011903

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