Landmark · Nervous system & sense organs
Retro-olivary groove
Sulcus retroolivaris
- System
- Nervous system & sense organs
- Regions
- Head
- Side
- Right
- Landmark on
- Medulla oblongata
DescriptionUnreviewed
Groove behind the oliva, where the glossopharyngeal nerve (IX) and the vagus nerve (X) emerge.
In its prolongation on the medulla oblongata emerge the roots of the accessory nerve (XI).
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Names
- Latin
- Sulcus retroolivaris
- English
- Retro-olivary groove
- French
- Sillon rétro-olivaire
- Spanish
- Surco retro-olivar
- Portuguese
- Sulco retro-olivar