Lateral aperture

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Brain: Lateral aperture

Three-dimensional representation of the ventricular system of the human brain. The fourth ventricle is the lower blue mass. The little points sticking out on the left and right are the two parts of the lateral recess, which end in the foramen of Luschka.

Human caudal brainstem posterior view (Lateral aperture is

#18) Latin Gray's Acronym(s) NeuroNames apertura lateralis ventriculi quarti subject #187 798 LA4V hier-637

The lateral aperture is a paired structure in human anatomy. It is an opening in each lateral extremity of the lateral recess of the fourth ventricle of the human brain. Along with the single median aperture, the two lateral aperatures provide a conduit for cerebrospinal fluid to flow from the brain's ventricular system into the subarachnoid space. The structure is also called the lateral aperture of the fourth ventricle or the foramen of Luschka after anatomist Hubert von Luschka.[1]

Median aperture
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Brain: Median aperture

Scheme of roof of fourth ventricle. The arrow is in the foramen of Magendie. Latin Gray's NeuroNames apertura mediana ventriculi quarti subject #187 798 hier-638

The median aperture (Foramen of Magendie) drains CSF from the fourth ventricle into the cisterna magna. The two lateral apertures (foramina of Luschka), one on the left and one on the right, are the primary routes for drainage of cerebrospinal fluid frim the fourth ventricle into the Cerebello-pontine angle cistern.

[edit] Eponym
The Foramen of Magendie is named for Franois Magendie, who first described it.[1]

[edit] References
1. ^ synd/2388 at Who Named It?

Netter, Frank H. (1989) Atlas of Human Anatomy. Summit, NJ: Ciba-Geigy Corporation. Williams, Peter L.; Warwick, Roger; Dyson, Mary; & Bannister, Lawrence H. (1989) Gray's Anatomy (37th ed.). New York: Churchill Livingstone.