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Midsagittal section of the brain

Midsagittal section of the brain — Brain and spinal cord
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After Sobotta's Atlas of Human Anatomy (1906-1911); modernized for Neuro.Wiki

About this plate

Midsagittal section of the brain. Sagittal view of the brain.

Region
brain
View
sagittal
System
cortex, ventricles, white matter, brainstem, cerebellum, cranial nerves
Focus
corpus callosum, diencephalon, brainstem, cerebellum

Structures labelled on this plate

  • splenium of corpus callosum
  • praecuneus
  • sulcus of corpus callosum
  • marginal portion of sulcus cinguli
  • central sulcus
  • paracentral lobule
  • pineal body
  • pineal recess
  • posterior commissure
  • tela chorioidea of third ventricle (transverse fissure of cerebrum)
  • intermed. mass of thalamus
  • subparietal sulcus
  • parieto-occipital fissure
  • gyrus cinguli et thalamus
  • body of corpus callosum
  • lamina quadrigemina
  • body of fornix
  • lam. of sept. pellucidum
  • subfrontal portion of sulcus cinguli
  • cuneus
  • interventricular foramen
  • vermis of cerebellum superior portion
  • column of fornix
  • anterior commissure
  • calcarine fissure
  • occipital pole
  • superior frontal gyrus
  • lingual gyrus
  • occipital lobe
  • cerebellar hemisphere
  • frontal pole
  • medullary substance of vermis
  • genu of corpus callosum
  • vermis of cerebell. (inf. portion)
  • rostrum of corpus callosum
  • parolfact. area
  • calamus scriptorius
  • central canal
  • posterior parolfactory sulcus
  • anterior parolfactory sulcus
  • spinal cord
  • subcallosal gyrus
  • hypothalamic sulcus
  • tela chorioidea of fourth ventricle
  • lam. terminalis
  • anter. medullary velum
  • cerebral aqueduct
  • pons
  • medulla oblongata
  • fourth ventricle
  • hypo-physis
  • poster. lobe
  • anter. lobe
  • oculo-motor nerve
  • mammillary body
  • posterior perforated substance
  • optic recess
  • optic nerve
  • optic chiasma
  • infundibulum

Source: After Sobotta's Atlas of Human Anatomy (1906-1911). Public domain (Sobotta's Atlas of Human Anatomy, 1906-1911), modernized rendering.