The caudal tip of the fourth ventricle where it becomes the central canal is known as the obex.
Fourth ventricle roof formation.
The fourth ventricle has a roof at its upper posterior surface and a floor at its lower anterior surface and side walls formed by the cerebellar peduncles nerve bundles joining the structure on the posterior side of the ventricle to the structures on the anterior side.
That line the cerebellar tonsils.
The roof of fourth ventricle is the dorsal surface of the fourth ventricle.
This apex also known as the fastigium extends into the white core of the cerebellum.
The obex is also a.
The roof of the fourth ventricle has presents a tent like apex at the intersection of it s superior and inferior parts.
The roof of the 4th ventricle is tent shaped and has upper and lower sloping surfaces.
The slender lobe situation between the roof of the fourth ventricle and cellebelar hemisphere is known as flocculonodular lobe.
It has a diamond shape and is located in the upper portion of the medulla.
The fourth ventricle contains cerebrospinal fluid.
The upper part of the roof is composed by a thin sheet of white matter the superior medullary velum that stretches between both superior cerebellar peduncles.
The inferior medullary velum is all that remains of the connection between the nodule and flocculus.
A new cell type at the border of the fourth ventricle is the exclusive source of roof plate.
In contrast to the superior roof the inferior roof of the fourth ventricle is formed mainly by two thin membranes the tela choroidea and the inferior medullary velum.
It corresponds to the ventral surface of the cerebellum.
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The upper portion of the roof is formed by the cerebellum.
The apex of the tent goes posteriorly into the white core of the cerebellum.
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy.
The superior part of the roof is formed by the superior cerebellar peduncles and the superior medullary velum thin sheet of white matter.
Inferior roof of the fourth ventricle.
The limits of the fourth ventricle are formed by the protuberance anteriorly the roof of the fourth ventricle is its upper portion and the floor is its lower portion.
The floor of the fourth ventricle forms from the posterior surface of the pons and the superior medulla.
The dorsal wall or roof of the fourth ventricle is formed by two cerebellar peduncles that are bridged together by a thin sheet of white matter called the superior medullary velum.
Specifically it spans from the obex an area in the medulla.