Nervous system & sense organs
Precentral gyrus
Gyrus precentralis
- System
- Nervous system & sense organs
- Regions
- Head
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Frontal lobe
DescriptionUnreviewed
The precentral gyrus is a prominent gyrus on the surface of the posterior frontal lobe of the brain.
It is the site of the primary motor cortex that in humans is cytoarchitecturally defined as Brodmann area 4.
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Names
- Latin
- Gyrus precentralis
- English
- Precentral gyrus
- French
- Gyrus précentral
- Spanish
- Giro precentral
- Portuguese
- Giro precentral
In the same group
- Inferior frontal sulcus
- Lat_Fis-ant-Horizont
- Lat_Fis-ant-Vertical
- Middle frontal gyrus
- Olfactory sulcus
- 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 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