Lateral aperture

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Brain: Lateral aperture
Latin	apertura lateralis ventriculi quarti
Gray's	subject #187 798
Acronym(s)	LA4V
NeuroNames	hier-637
Dorlands/Elsevier	a_51/12144677

There is a lateral aperture (also called foramen of Luschka or lateral aperture of the fourth ventricle) in each lateral extremity of the lateral recess of the fourth ventricle of the human brain. The two lateral apertures (or foramina of Luschka), one on the left and one on the right, along with the median aperture, comprise the three openings in the roof of the fourth ventricle of the brain.

[edit] See also

Hubert von Luschka

[edit] External links

synd/2391 at Who Named It

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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