Lateral recess

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Brain: Lateral recess
Diagram showing the positions of the three principal subarachnoid cisternæ. (Lateral recess not labeled, but region is visible.)
Latin recessus lateralis ventriculi quarti
NeuroNames hier-639
Dorlands/Elsevier r_05/12696693

The lateral recess is a projection of the fourth ventricle which extends into the inferior cerebellar peduncle of the brainstem.

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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
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