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Mesencephalon vs Neuraxis - What's the difference?

mesencephalon | neuraxis |

As nouns the difference between mesencephalon and neuraxis

is that mesencephalon is a part of the brain located rostral to the pons and caudal to the thalamus and the basal ganglia, composed of the tectum (dorsal portion) and the tegmentum (ventral portion) while neuraxis is the axis of the central nervous system; i.e. the spinal cord, rhombencephalon, mesencephalon and diencephalon.

mesencephalon

English

(wikipedia mesencephalon)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A part of the brain located rostral to the pons and caudal to the thalamus and the basal ganglia, composed of the tectum (dorsal portion) and the tegmentum (ventral portion).

    • Synonyms

    * midbrain

    Meronyms

    * tectum * tegmentum

    neuraxis

    English

    Noun

    (neuraxes)
  • (anatomy) The axis of the central nervous system; i.e. the spinal cord, rhombencephalon, mesencephalon and diencephalon.
  • * 1984 , (Oliver Sacks), “The Disembodied Lady”, chapter 3 in (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat) (Reset 2007), page 51:
    • The picture revealed by spinal tap was one of an acute polyneuritis, but a polyneuritis of a most exceptional type: not like Guillian–Barré syndrome, with its overwhelming motor involvement, but a purely (or almost purely) sensory neuritis, affecting the sensory roots of spinal and cranial nerves throughout the neuraxis .

    External links

    * ("neuraxis" on Wikipedia)