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Brain: Cerebral crus

Section through superior colliculus showing path of oculomotor nerve.
Latin	crus cerebri
Gray's	subject #188 800
NeuroNames	hier-530
Dorlands/Elsevier	c_64/12268053

The cerebral crus is the anterior portion of the cerebral peduncle which contains the motor tracts, the plural of which is cerebral crura. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. This is a list of the subjects in Gray's Anatomy: IX Neurology NeuroNames is a system of nomenclature for the human and/or macaque Brain. Elsevier, the world's largest Publisher of Medical and Scientific literature, forms part of the Reed Elsevier group The cerebral peduncle, by most classifications is everything in the Mesencephalon except the Tectum.

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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Human brain frontal (coronal) section

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