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Cerebral crus

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Cerebral crus
Section through midbrain showing label for cerebral crus at lower left.
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Identifiers
Latincrus cerebri
MeSHD065843
NeuroNames539
NeuroLex IDbirnlex_1218
TA98A14.1.06.005
A14.1.09.259
TA25880
FMA72464
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

The cerebral crus is the anterior portion of the cerebral peduncle which contains the motor tracts, the plural of which is cerebral crura.

In some older texts this is called the cerebral peduncle but presently it is usually limited to just the anterior white matter portion of it.

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Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 800 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)