Fastigial nucleus

System Nervous
SNOMED CT 279224002

Fastigial nucleus

Definition

The most medial of the cerebellar nuclei; it receives its afferent input from Purkinje cells of the flocculonodular lobe and the vermis, and most of its efferent connections travel via the inferior cerebellar peduncle to the vestibular nuclei and to the medullary reticular formation.

Also known as medial (fastigial) nucleus, medial cerebellar nucleus, nucleus fastigii, roof nucleus-1 — per UBERON

The Fastigial nucleus is a part of the Nervous.

Also identified as