Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings (thesaurus)

Search from vocabulary

Concept information

Preferred term

Rhombencephalon  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • The posterior of the three primitive cerebral vesicles of an embryonic brain. It consists of myelencephalon, metencephalon, and isthmus rhombencephali from which develop the major BRAIN STEM components, such as MEDULLA OBLONGATA from the myelencephalon, CEREBELLUM and PONS from the metencephalon, with the expanded cavity forming the FOURTH VENTRICLE.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Hind Brain
  • Hindbrain

In other languages

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-F2498QBJ-H

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 3/28/86, last modified 6/23/15