Medial longitudinal fissure
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| Brain: Medial longitudinal fissure | ||
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| Great longitudinal fissure visible running left to right. | ||
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| longitudinal fissure shown in red (animation) | ||
| Latin | fissura longitudinalis cerebri, fissura cerebri longitudinalis | |
| Gray's | subject #189 818 | |
| NeuroNames | hier-16 | |
| NeuroLex ID | birnlex_4041 | |
The great longitudinal fissure (or longitudinal cerebral fissure, or longitudinal fissure, or interhemispheric fissure) is the deep groove that separates the two hemispheres of the vertebrate brain.
The falx cerebri, a dural brain covering, lies within the medial longitudinal fissure.
The corpus callosum crosses the medial longitudinal fissure.
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facies dorsalis cerebri gyri
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Human brain - left and right hemispheres - superior-lateral view
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Basal view of a human brain
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