Fourth ventricle

System Nervous
SNOMED CT 180932000

Fourth ventricle

Definition

Part of the ventricular system of the brain, forming a single large irregularly shaped cavity located on the midline of the rhombencephalon, between the medulla, pons and the isthmus ventrally and the cerebellum dorsally. It is continuous with the cerebral aqueduct anteriorally and the central canal of the spinal cord posteriorly. It communicates with the subarachnoid space through its lateral and median apertures.

Also known as ventricle IV — per UBERON

The Fourth ventricle is a part of the Nervous.

Also identified as