Crus cerebri

Cerebral crus
Section through midbrain showing label for cerebral crus at lower left.
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Identifiers
Latin	crus cerebri
NeuroNames	hier-530
NeuroLex ID	Cerebral crus
Dorlands /Elsevier	c_64/12268053
TA	A14.1.06.005
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy []

The cerebral crus (crus cerebri) is the anterior portion of the cerebral peduncle which contains the motor tracts, the plural of which is cerebral crura.

In some older texts this is called the cerebral peduncle but presently it is usually limited to just the anterior white matter portion of it.

Human brain frontal (coronal) section

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