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Definition of Aqueductus cerebri
1. Noun. A canal connecting the third and fourth ventricles.
Generic synonyms: Canal, Channel, Duct, Epithelial Duct
Medical Definition of Aqueductus cerebri
1. An ependymal-lined canal in the mesencephalon about 20 mm long, connecting the third to the fourth ventricle. Synonym: aqueductus cerebri, aqueduct of cerebrum, aqueductus sylvii, iter a tertio ad quartum ventriculum, sylvian aqueduct. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aqueductus Cerebri
Literary usage of Aqueductus cerebri
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"... and becomes continuous with the slender aqueductus cerebri (Fig. ... o,
depression marking caudal end of aqueductus cerebri (aqueduct of Sylvius); ..."
2. The Nervous System and Its Constituent Neurones: Designed for the Use of by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1899)
"In sections taken through the pedunculus cerebri it is seen to occupy a position
in the tegmentum ventral to the aqueductus cerebri and to the stratum ..."
3. An Outline of psychobiology by Knight Dunlap (1917)
"... and at the ' posterior ' end it communicates through the aqueduct of
Sylvius (aqueductus cerebri}, a very small tubular aperture through the mid-brain, ..."
4. Neurological Technique: Some Special Histological Methods Employed for the by Irving Hardesty (1901)
"What is the aqueductus cerebri ? Section 12, to pass through the region of the
emergence of the Nn. ... aqueductus cerebri, stratum griseum centrale, ..."
5. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1921)
"... semilunaris inferior Cerebrum Pedunculus cerebri Colliculus superior Colliculus
interior aqueductus cerebri Foramen ..."
6. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"It is divisible into two parts: (1) that lying dorsal from the level of the
aqueductus cerebri, known as the corpora quadrigemina, and (2) that lying ..."
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