A dorsally concave bend of the embryonic rhombencephalon that produces a thinning of the roof of the pons and medulla oblongata and defines the boundary between the metencephalon and myelencephalon in the embryo[MP]. [ MP:0000844 ]
Synonyms: transverse rhombencephalic flexure (embryonic) hindbrain flexure pontal flexure basicranial flexure
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Equivalent to:
- neuraxis flexure and part of some presumptive hindbrain and continuous with some metencephalon and continuous with some myelencephalon
Subclass of:
- neuraxis flexure
- continuous with some metencephalon
- continuous with some myelencephalon
- part of some presumptive hindbrain