Nervous system & sense organs
Olfactory sulcus
Sulcus olfactorius
- System
- Nervous system & sense organs
- Regions
- Head
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Frontal lobe
DescriptionUnreviewed
The olfactory tract is a bilateral bundle of afferent nerve fibers from the mitral and tufted cells of the olfactory bulb that connects to several target regions in the brain, including the piriform cortex, amygdala, and entorhinal cortex.
It is a narrow white band, triangular on coronal section, the apex being directed upward.
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Names
- Latin
- Sulcus olfactorius
- English
- Olfactory sulcus
- French
- Sillon olfactif
- Spanish
- Surco olfatorio
- Portuguese
- Sulco olfatório
In the same group
- Inferior frontal sulcus
- Lat_Fis-ant-Horizont
- Lat_Fis-ant-Vertical
- Middle frontal gyrus
- Opercular part of inferior frontal gyrus
- Orbital gyri
- Orbital gyri (Frontomarginal gyrus and sulcus*)
- Orbital part of inferior frontal gyrus
- Orbital sulci (H-shaped orbital sulci*)
- Orbital sulci (Lateral Orbital sulcus*)
- Paracentral gyrus and sulcus*
- Paracentral sulcus
- Precentral gyrus
- Precentral sulcus (inferior part)*
- Precentral sulcus (Superior part)*
- Straight gyrus (Gyrus rectus)
- Superior frontal gyrus
- Superior frontal sulcus
- Transverse frontopolar gyrus and sulcus*
- Triangular part of inferior frontal gyrus