Term Name: anterior perforated substance
Synonyms: area olfactoria (Mai), eminentia parolfactoria, olfactory area (Carpenter), olfactory tubercle (Ganser), rostral perforated substance, substantia perforata anterior, tuber olfactorium
Definition: Regional part of telencephalon lying on the basal surface and bounded by the olfactory trigone rostrally, the diagonal band medially and caudally and the prepiriform cortex laterally. It is characterized by many perforations caused by small blood vessels entering the gray matter (Meyer et al., J. Comp. Neurol 284: 405, 1989).
Ontology: Uberon Ontology [UBERON:0018141]

Relationships
is part of: telencephalon
is a type of: regional part of brain structure with developmental contribution from neural crest