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  2. Anatomical terms of location - Wikipedia

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    Caudal (from Latin cauda 'tail') describes how close something is to the trailing end of an organism. [41] For example, in horses, the eyes are caudal to the nose and rostral to the back of the head. These terms are generally preferred in veterinary medicine and not used as often in human medicine.

  3. Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy - Wikipedia

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    Rostral and caudal: In animals with linear nervous systems, the term rostral (from the Latin rostrum, meaning "beak") is synonymous with anterior and the term caudal (from the Latin cauda, meaning "tail") is synonymous with posterior. Due to humans having an upright posture, however, our nervous system is considered to bend about 90°.

  4. Neuroanatomy - Wikipedia

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    Rostral and caudal: rostral refers in general anatomy to the front of the body (towards the nose, or rostrum in Latin), and caudal refers to the tail end of the body (towards the tail; cauda in Latin). The rostrocaudal dimension of the brain corresponds to its length axis, which runs across the cited flexures from the caudal tip of the spinal ...

  5. Anatomical terminology - Wikipedia

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    Rostral and caudal, which describe structures close to (rostral) or farther from (caudal) the nose. For example, the eyes are rostral to the back of the skull, and the tailbone is caudal to the chest. Cranial and caudal, which describe structures close to the top of the skull (cranial), and towards the bottom of the body (caudal).

  6. List of regions in the human brain - Wikipedia

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    Rostral ventrolateral medulla; Caudal ventrolateral medulla; Solitary nucleus (Nucleus of the solitary tract) Respiratory center-Respiratory groups. Dorsal respiratory group; Ventral respiratory group or Apneustic centre. Pre-Bötzinger complex; Botzinger complex; Retrotrapezoid nucleus; Nucleus retrofacialis; Nucleus retroambiguus; Nucleus ...

  7. Central nervous system - Wikipedia

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    It is a structure composed of nervous tissue positioned along the rostral (nose end) to caudal (tail end) axis of the body and may have an enlarged section at the rostral end which is a brain. Only arthropods , cephalopods and vertebrates have a true brain, though precursor structures exist in onychophorans , gastropods and lancelets .

  8. Trigeminal nerve nuclei - Wikipedia

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    The nucleus is divided into three parts, from rostral to caudal (top to bottom in humans): The mesencephalic nucleus; The principal sensory nucleus; The spinal trigeminal nucleus; The spinal trigeminal nucleus is further subdivided into three parts, from rostral to caudal: Pars oralis (from the Pons to the Hypoglossal nucleus)

  9. Dorsal raphe nucleus - Wikipedia

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    The dorsal raphe nucleus is one of the raphe nuclei.It is situated in the brainstem at the midline. It has rostral and caudal subdivisions: The rostral aspect of the dorsal raphe is further divided into interfascicular, ventral, ventrolateral and dorsal subnuclei.