"Reticular Formation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A region extending from the PONS & MEDULLA OBLONGATA through the MESENCEPHALON, characterized by a diversity of neurons of various sizes and shapes, arranged in different aggregations and enmeshed in a complicated fiber network.
| Descriptor ID |
D012154
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.186.211.132.772
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| Concept/Terms |
Reticular Formation- Reticular Formation
- Formation, Reticular
- Formations, Reticular
- Reticular Formations
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