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Introduction
Primarily composed of
gray matter
Parts of diencephalon
Thalamus
Hypothalamus
Epithalamus
Subthalamus
Thalamus
It is an oval mass of grey matter within the brain located just
above the brain stem between the cerebral cortex and the midbrain
It has four surfaces, lateral, medial, superior and inferior and two
ends, anterior and posterior
:Boundaries
:Inferiorly
optic chiasma
tuber cinereum
Infundibulum
mamillary body