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Encyclopedia > Foramina of Luschka
Brain: Lateral apertures
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Latin apertura lateralis ventriculi quarti
Gray's subject #187 798
Part of
Components
Artery
Vein
Acronym(s) LA4V
NeuroNames hier-637
MeSH [1]
Dorlands/Elsevier a_51/12144677

The two lateral apertures (or foramina of Luschka), along with the median aperture, comprise the three openings in the roof of the fourth ventricle. They are found at the extremities of the lateral recesses. Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... NeuroNames is a system of nomenclature for the brain and related structures. ... Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a huge controlled vocabulary (or metadata system) for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences. ... Elseviers logo Elsevier, the worlds largest publisher of medical and scientific literature, forms part of the Reed Elsevier group. ... The Median Aperture of the brain (apertura medialis ventriculi quarte) or Foramen of Magendie is an opening in the hollow nerve tube, connecting the 4th ventricle of the brain with the subarachnoid space The median aperture along with the paired lateral apertures (foramina of Luschka) are the primary routes for... The fourth ventricle is one of the four connected fluid-filled cavities within the human brain. ...


See also

Hubert von Luschka (1820 - 1875) was a German anatomist. ...

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