Cerebral crus

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Brain: Cerebral crus
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Section through superior colliculus showing path of oculomotor nerve.
Latin crus cerebri
Gray's subject #188 800
NeuroNames hier-530
NeuroLex ID birnlex_1218

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, it is used as a synonym for the entire cerebral peduncle, not just the anterior portion of it.

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This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained within it may be outdated.