Lateral vestibular nucleus

Lateral vestibular nucleus
Terminal nuclei of the vestibular nerve, with their upper connections. (Schematic.)
  1. Cochlear nerve, with its two nuclei
  2. Accessory nucleus
  3. Tuberculum acusticum
  4. Vestibular nerve
  5. Internal nucleus
  6. Nucleus of Deiters
  7. Nucleus of Bechterew
  8. Inferior or descending root of acoustic
  9. Ascending cerebellar fibers
  10. Fibers going to raphé
  11. Fibers taking an oblique course
  12. Lemniscus
  13. Inferior sensory root of trigeminal
  14. Pyramidal tracts
  15. Raphé
  16. Fourth ventricle
  17. Inferior peduncle. Origin of striae medullares.
Details
Identifiers
Latinnucleus vestibularis lateralis
MeSHD003689
NeuroNames716
NeuroLex IDnlx_144002
TA98A14.1.05.427
TA25935
FMA54614
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

The lateral vestibular nucleus (Deiters's nucleus) is the continuation upward and lateralward of the principal nucleus, and in it terminate many of the ascending branches of the vestibular nerve.

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