A midline, cone like structure located in the dorso-caudal roof of the 3rd ventricle, attached by peduncles to the habenular and posterior commissures. The stalk contains nerve fibers, blood vessels, connective tissue and parenchymal cells (Paxinos, The Rat Central Nervous System, 2nd ed, pg 399). [ BIRNLEX:1184 ]
Synonyms: corpus pineale pineal gland glandula pinealis pineal organ
Term information
- NLXANAT:1010009
- BIRNLEX:1184
- BAMS:Pi
- CALOHA:TS-0789
- BM:P
- VHOG:0000051
- XAO:0000160
- EV:0100221
- AAO:0010549
- ZFA:0000019
- EV:0100131
- null:http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu/centraldirectory.aspx?ID=297 (BIRNLEX:1184)
- HBA:4532
- UMLS:C0031939 (BIRNLEX:1184)
- MAT:0000448
- UMLS:C0031939 (ncithesaurus:Pineal_Gland)
- null:http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu/centraldirectory.aspx?ID=297
- BTO:0001067
- BAMS:PIN
- OpenCyc:Mx4rv2FMGpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
- DHBA:10460
- MA:0000175
- null:http://www.snomedbrowser.com/Codes/Details/181126002
- EHDAA:7523
- MBA:953
- TAO:0000019
- null:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0031939
- FMA:62033
- null:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineal_gland
- EHDAA2:0001466
- MESH:D010870
- EMAPA:18778
- galen:PinealGland
- NCIT:C12398
- GAID:453
- EFO:0000865
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, organ_slim
Anatomical structure which is a medial outgrowth of the thalamus on the dorsal surface of the brain. This structure is light sensitive and secretes melatonin when exposed to prolonged darkness.[AAO]
A circumscribed swelling, includes the pineal primordium that appears late in the segmentation period in the dorsal midline of the diencephalon. Kimmel et al, 1995.[TAO]
pineal
stirnorgan
conarium
epiphysis
epiphysis cerebri
pineal gland (Galen)
frontal organ
The pineal gland has evolved from a part of the epiphyseal complex of anamniotes, which includes a median light-receptive pineal eye, parietal eye, or both.[well established][VHOG]