Term Name: | anterior perforated substance |
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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] |