Communicating branch ( cbr ; Winslow, 1733 ) : A general term for a short white matter tract between two nerve cords, two nerves (Herophilus, c335-280 BC), two ganglia (Galen, c173), or a ganglion and a nerve. Galen (c180; see translation by Goss, 1966, p. 330) referred to communications between nerves and Winslow (1733, Sect. VI) frequently used the term communicating branch in describing macrodissected adult human nerves.

Corpora quadrigemina ( Winslow, 1733 ) : Synonym for macrodissected adult human tectum (Schwalbe, 1881); Sect. X, p. 37. Quadrigeminal body in English.

Medulla ( MY ; Winslow, 1733 ) : The topographic division of the cerebrospinal axis (Meckel, 1817) between pons (Haller, 1747) and spinal cord (Galen, c162-c166). It was clearly described and illustrated for macrodissected adult humans by Piccolomini (1586, pp. 265, 269; his intracranial medulla oblongata), while the term medulla was used by Winslow (1733, Sect. X, p. 42) and Haller (1747, see translation by Mihles, 1754, pp. 287, 286), and more recently in the classic textbooks of for example Mettler (1948, p. 76) and Carpenter (1976, p. 60). Synonyms include medulla oblongata (Bartholin, 1651), spinal bulb (Chaussier, 1807), bulb (Chaussier, 1807), afterbrain (Baer, 1837), metencephalon (Sharpey et al., 1867), myelencephalon (Huxley, 1871), epencephalon (Mihailkovics, 1877).

Prevertebral plexuses ( PVE ; Winslow, 1733 ) : A topographic division of autonomic nerves (Langley, 1898) that form an interconnected series of more or less distinguishable perivascular thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic plexuses (Galen, c192) of small communicating branches (Winslow, 1733) or anastomotic nerve fiber bundles. Their functional composition is complex with varying mixtures of postganglinic sympathetic axons (Kölliker, 1896) from paravertebral nerves, preganglionic parasympathetic axons, visceral afferent fibers, and prevertebral ganglia (Gaskell, 1886) that are mostly sympathetic-except in the inferior hypogastric plexus where there is a mixture of sympathetic and parasympathetic neurons (Waldeyer, 1891); see Durward (1951, pp. 1120, 1128, 1138) for name and Williams & Warwick (1980, pp. 1132-1137).

Spinal nerve trunk ( spt ; Winslow, 1733 ) : The short segment of a spinal nerve (Camper, 1760) between the junction of the dorsal root and ventral root, and the origin of the spinal nerve primary branches; this arrangement was specifically described for macrodissected adult humans by Winslow (1733, Sect. VI, p. 76); for contemporary terminology see Durward (1951, Fig. 913).