Primary fissure of cerebellum

Groove in the top of the cerebellum

Primary fissure of cerebellum

Upper surface of the cerebellum. (Preclival fissure coloured in red.)

The primary fissure demarcates the anterior lobe and the posterior lobe .

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Latin| fissura prima
NeuroNames| 648
TA98| A14.1.07.119
TA2| 5794
FMA| 83729
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

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The monticulus of the cerebellum is divided by the primary fissure (or preclival fissure) into an anterior, raised part, the culmen or summit, and a posterior sloped part, the clivus; the quadrangular lobule is similarly divided.

## Additional images[edit]

* Animation. Primary fissure shown in red.

* Close up animation. Primary fissure shown in red.

* Dissection video (1 min 20 s). Demonstrating the three cerebellar lobes. "V-shaped fissure" is the primary fissure.

## See also[edit]

* Anatomy of the cerebellum

## References[edit]

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 789 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

## External links[edit]

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Anatomy of the cerebellum

Surface|

| Lobes|

* Anterior lobe
* Posterior lobe
* Horizontal fissure
* Flocculonodular lobe
* Flocculus
* Nodule
* Primary fissure

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Medial/lateral|

* Vermis: anterior
* Central lobule
* Culmen
* Lingula
* posterior
* Folium
* Tuber
* Uvula
* Vallecula of cerebellum

* Hemisphere: anterior
* Alar central lobule
* posterior
* Biventer lobule
* Cerebellar tonsil

Grey matter|

| Deep cerebellar nuclei|

* Dentate
* interposed
* Emboliform
* Globose
* Fastigial

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Cerebellar cortex|

* Molecular layer
* Stellate cell
* Basket cell

* Purkinje cell layer
* Purkinje cell
* Bergmann glia cell = Golgi epithelial cell
* Fañanas cell

* Granule cell layer
* Golgi cell
* Granule cell
* Unipolar brush cell

* Fibers: Mossy fibers
* Climbing fiber
* Parallel fiber

White matter|

| Internal|

* Arbor vitae

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Peduncles|

* Inferior (medulla): Dorsal spinocerebellar tract
* Olivocerebellar tract
* Cuneocerebellar tract
* Juxtarestiform body (Vestibulocerebellar tract)
* Trigeminocerebellar fibers

* Middle (pons): Pontocerebellar fibers

* Superior (midbrain): Ventral spinocerebellar tract
* Dentatothalamic tract

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