Nucleus Ambiguus

Preferred Label : Nucleus Ambiguus;

NCIt definition : A very slender, longitudinal column of motor neurons in the ventrolateral medulla oblongata; its efferent fibres leave with the vagus and glossopharyngeal nerve and innervate the striated muscle fibres of the pharynx (including the musculus levator veli palatini) and the vocal cord muscles of the larynx.;

Details

Origin ID

C12835;

UMLS CUI

C0152400;

Anatomic structure is physical part of
- Brain [NCIt concept]
- Floor of the Fourth Ventricle [NCIt concept]
- Medulla Oblongata [NCIt concept]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Entire nucleus ambiguus (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Nucleus Ambiguus [MeSH concept]
- medulla oblongata [MeSH Descriptor]
- nucleus ambiguus [UBERON concept]
- nucleus ambiguus [Radlex concept]
- right nucleus ambiguus [Radlex concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Nucleus ambiguus [FMA entity]
- Structure of nucleus ambiguus (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- nucleus ambiguus [SNOMED Notion]
Semantic type(s)
- Body Part, Organ, or Organ Component [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Nucleus Ambiguus [MeSH concept]
- Nucleus ambiguus [FMA entity]
- Structure of nucleus ambiguus (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- nucleus ambiguus [SNOMED Notion]

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