Nervous system & sense organs
Olive
Oliva
- System
- Nervous system & sense organs
- Regions
- Head
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Medulla oblongata
DescriptionUnreviewed
In anatomy, the olivary bodies or simply olives (Latin oliva and olivae, singular and plural, respectively) are a pair of prominent oval structures in the medulla oblongata, the lower portion of the brainstem.
They contain the olivary nuclei.
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Names
- Latin
- Oliva
- English
- Olive
- French
- Olive
- Spanish
- Oliva
- Portuguese
- Oliva