A portion of the nucleus of ansa lenticularis located medial to the posterior limb of the internal capsule, along the course of the ansa lenticularis and the inferior thalamic peduncle or as a separate nucleus within the internal capsule adjacent to the medial GLOBUS PALLIDUS (NeuroNames, http://rprcsgi.rprc. washington.edu/neuronames/ (September 28, 1998)). In non-primates, the entopeduncular nucleus is analogous to both the medial globus pallidus and the entopeduncular nucleus of human.

Annotation

for non-primates medial globus pallidus is ENTOPEDUNCULAR NUCLEUS

DUI

D020392 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0328019

Previous indexing

Globus Pallidus (1967-1999)

History note

2000

Public note

2000