Frontal lobe is the anterior-most of five lobes of the cerebral hemisphere. It is bounded by the central sulcus on its posterior border and by the longitudinal cerebral fissure on its medial border. [ FMA:61824 ]
Synonyms: lobus frontalis lobi frontales
This is just here as a test because I lose it
Term information
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cross reference
- CALOHA:TS-0389
- SCTID:180920004
- HBA:4009
- NCIT:C12352
- EFO:0000913
- BM:Tel-Cx-FR
- MESH:D005625
- UMLS:C0016733 (ncithesaurus:Frontal_Lobe)
- BIRNLEX:928
- EV:0100167
- neuronames:56 (BIRNLEX:928)
- MAT:0000505
- FMA:61824
- BAMS:Frontal_lobe
- DHBA:12113
- UMLS:C1268977 (BIRNLEX:928)
Subsets
efo_slim, human_reference_atlas
editor note
Many species don't have lobes but they do have frontal cortex. Lobe isn't a really well defined term though
Term relations
Subclass of:
- lobe of cerebral hemisphere
- adjacent to some parietal lobe
- contributes to morphology of some telencephalon
- adjacent to some temporal lobe
Related from:
part of
- anterior segment of paracentral lobule
- frontal cortex
- principal sulcus
- rostral sulcus
- medial orbital sulcus
- lateral orbital sulcus
- orbital sulcus
- frontomarginal sulcus
- white matter of frontal lobe
- gyrus rectus
- orbital gyrus
- transverse frontopolar gyri complex
- rostral gyrus
- paracingulate gyrus
- orbital gyri complex
- arcuate sulcus
- operculum of brain
- Ongur, Price, and Ferry (2003) prefrontal cortical partition scheme region
- intermediate frontal sulcus
- medial precentral sulcus
- frontal pole