Medical Dictionary

posterior commissure

noun

Medical Definition of POSTERIOR COMMISSURE

:  a bundle of white matter crossing from one side of the brain to the other just rostral to the superior colliculi and above the opening of the aqueduct of Sylvius into the third ventricle

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