The cerebral crus (crus cerebri) is the anterior portion of the cerebral peduncle which contains the motor tracts, travelling from the cerebral cortex to the pons and spine. The plural of which is cerebral crura.
Cerebral crus | |
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Identifiers | |
Latin | crus cerebri |
MeSH | D065843 |
NeuroNames | 539 |
NeuroLex ID | birnlex_1218 |
TA98 | A14.1.06.005 A14.1.09.259 |
TA2 | 5880 |
FMA | 72464 |
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy [edit on Wikidata] |
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.
This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 800 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)