CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cerebral peduncle mean? 

• CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE (noun)
  The noun CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE has 1 sense:

1. a bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain

  Familiarity information: CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cerebral peduncle; peduncle

Hypernyms ("cerebral peduncle" is a kind of...):

nerve pathway; nerve tract; pathway; tract (a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain)

Holonyms ("cerebral peduncle" is a part of...):

forebrain; prosencephalon (the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube)

 Context examples 

Develops from the middle of the 3 primary vesicles of the embryonic neural tube, between the prosencephalon and rhombencephalon, later forming the tectum and cerebral peduncles.

(Mesencephalon, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

The midbrain contains the cerebral peduncles, oculomotor, trochlear and red nuclei, substantia nigra and various other nuclei and tracts.

(Mesencephalon, NCI Thesaurus)

A large blood vessel formed by the anterior and deep middle cerebral veins and small branches from the insula and cerebral peduncles which receives tributaries from the temporal horn and the medial temporal lobe and is joined by the inferior striate veins.

(Basal Cerebral Vein of Rosenthal, NCI Thesaurus)