“posterior median”

The following 2 entries include the term posterior median.

posterior median septum

noun

: a sheet of glial tissue in the midsagittal plane of the spinal cord that extends from the posterior median sulcus toward the gray commissure and that partitions the posterior part of the spinal cord into right and left halves

posterior median sulcus

noun

: a shallow groove along the midline of the posterior part of the spinal cord that separates the two posterior funiculi and is the external boundary of the posterior median septum


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