Third ventricle
(
V3
;
Galen, c173
)
: The part of the ventricles (Hippocrates) in the median plane (Henle, 1855) of the interbrain (Baer, 1837), continuous rostrally (Schulze, 1893) with the lateral ventricles (Vesalius, 1543) and caudally (Cleland, 1879) with the cerebral aqueduct (His, 1895). Galen (c173; see translations by May, 1968, p. 141 and Singer, 1999, p. 234) discovered and named the third ventricle in the macrodissected adult ox.
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