Facial colliculus

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Brain: Facial colliculus
Rhomboid fossa. (Colliculus facialis labeled at center left.)
Latin	colliculus facialis
NeuroNames	hier-621
Dorlands/Elsevier	c_46/12249189

The facial colliculus is an elevated area located on the dorsal pons. It is formed by motor fibres of the facial nerve as they loop over the abducens nucleus.

[edit] External links

• http://www.med.yale.edu/caim/cnerves/cn6/cn6_2.html
• http://www.neuroanatomy.wisc.edu/virtualbrain/BrainStem/14CNVII.html
• http://www.ib.amwaw.edu.pl/anatomy/atlas/image_04be.htm

v • d • e Ventricular system General Choroid plexus - Circumventricular organs Lateral ventricles Body of lateral ventricle - Anterior horn of lateral ventricle - Posterior horn of lateral ventricle - Inferior horn of lateral ventricle - Calcar avis - Collateral eminence - Lamina affixa Third ventricle recesses: (Optic recess, Infundibular recess, Suprapineal recess, Pineal recess) Hypothalamic sulcus - Tela chorioidea of the third ventricle Subfornical organ Fourth ventricle Lateral recess - Tela chorioidea of the fourth ventricle - Taenia of fourth ventricle roof: Superior medullary velum - Inferior medullary velum floor/rhomboid fossa: Vagal trigone - Hypoglossal trigone - Obex - Sulcus limitans - Facial colliculus - Medial eminence Apertures Interventricular/Monro - Cerebral aqueduct/Sylvius - Median/Magendie and Lateral/Luschka