Dentate nucleus

System Nervous
SNOMED CT 279221005

Dentate nucleus

Definition

The largest and most lateral of the deep cerebellum nuclei; it receives axons of Purkinje cells in the lateral cerebellar hemisphere (neocerebellum) and receives its afferents from the premotor cortex and the supplementary motor cortex through the pontocerebellar system, and its efferents project through the superior cerebellar peduncle and is a major source of its fibers.

Also known as dentate cerebellar nucleus, lateral cerebellar nucleus, lateral nucleus of cerebellum — per UBERON

The Dentate nucleus is a part of the Nervous.

Also identified as