Nervous system & sense organs
Septum pellucidum
- System
- Nervous system & sense organs
- Regions
- Head
- Part of
- Walls of lateral ventricle
DescriptionUnreviewed
The septum pellucidum (Latin for "translucent wall") is a thin, triangular, vertical double membrane separating the anterior horns of the left and right lateral ventricles of the brain.
It runs as a sheet from the corpus callosum down to the fornix. The septum is not present in the syndrome septo-optic dysplasia.
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Names
- Latin
- Septum pellucidum
- English
- Septum pellucidum
- French
- Septum pellucidum
- Spanish
- Septum pellucidum
- Portuguese
- Septo pelúcido