Landmark · Nervous system & sense organs
Gracile tubercle
Tuberculum gracile
- System
- Nervous system & sense organs
- Regions
- Head
- Side
- Right
- Landmark on
- Medulla oblongata
DescriptionUnreviewed
The gracile tubercle is located at the end of the gracile fasciculus,
At the bottom of the medulla oblongata, the region has four bumps: the pair of cuneate tubercles and the pair of gracile tubercles.
Both nuclei contain second-order neurons of the dorsal column–medial lemniscus pathway, which carries fine touch and proprioceptive information from the body to the brain.
Fibres reach the thalamus.
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Names
- Latin
- Tuberculum gracile
- English
- Gracile tubercle
- French
- Tubercule gracile
- Spanish
- Tubérculo gracil
- Portuguese
- Tubérculo grácil