THIRD VENTRICLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does third ventricle mean? 

• THIRD VENTRICLE (noun)
  The noun THIRD VENTRICLE has 1 sense:

1. a narrow ventricle in the midplane below the corpus callosum; communicates with the fourth ventricle via the Sylvian aqueduct

  Familiarity information: THIRD VENTRICLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIRD VENTRICLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A narrow ventricle in the midplane below the corpus callosum; communicates with the fourth ventricle via the Sylvian aqueduct

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("third ventricle" is a kind of...):

ventricle (one of four connected cavities in the brain; is continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord and contains cerebrospinal fluid)

 Context examples 

A rare, slow growing glial tumor located in the third ventricle of adults.

(Chordoid Glioma of the Third Ventricle, NCI Thesaurus)

It is attached to the roof of the third ventricle near its junction with the mid-brain.

(Pineal Parenchyma, NCI Thesaurus)

A nucleus located in the middle hypothalamus in the most ventral part of the third ventricle near the entrance of the infundibular recess.

(Arcuate Nucleus, NCI Thesaurus)

The epithalamus is generally considered to include the habenular nuclei and associated fiber bundles, the pineal body, and the epithelial roof of the third ventricle.

(Epithalamus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Two rows of vascular fringes projecting from the underside of the tela choroidea where it exists over the third ventricle where cerebrospinal fluid is produced.

(Choroid Plexus of the Third Ventricle, NCI Thesaurus)

The epithalamus is generally considered to include the habenular nuclei (HABENULA) and associated fiber bundles, the PINEAL BODY, and the epithelial roof of the third ventricle.

(Murine Epithalamus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A small conical midline body attached to the posterior part of the third ventricle and lying between the superior colliculi, below the splenium of the corpus callosum.

(Murine Pineal Gland, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The thalamus and hypothalamus border the lateral walls of the third ventricle.

(Murine Third Ventricle of Brain, NCI Thesaurus)

Colloid cysts i.e. cysts filled with gelatinous material, in the central nervous system often are found in the third ventricle.

(Intracranial Colloid Cyst, NCI Thesaurus)

The infundibulum is open to the third ventricle to allow for the release of antidiuretic hormone and oxytocin.

(Brain Infundibulum, NCI Thesaurus)