Cingulate gyrus

System Nervous
SNOMED CT 279208003

Cingulate gyrus

Definition

One of the convolutions on the medial surface of the cerebral hemisphere. It surrounds the rostral part of the brain and interhemispheric commissure and forms part of the limbic system. (MSH) One of three essential structures comprising the limbic lobe, the other two being the hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus. (CSP).

Also known as cingulate area, cingulate region, falciform lobe, upper limbic gyrus — per UBERON

The Cingulate gyrus is a part of the Nervous.

Also identified as