Anatomy study note · Head and neck

Postcentral gyrus

The gyrus immediately behind the central sulcus: the general sensory area.

Key points

• Sensory area; behind the central sulcus (parietal lobe).
• Opposite side of the body.
• Pain, temperature, touch, pressure.
• Cerebral hemisphere: telencephalon.
• Cortex = grey matter on the surface, white matter beneath.
• CNS myelin: oligodendrocytes.

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Written from

• Snell’s Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 10th ed., ch. 12, PDF pp. 1562–1564
• Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 17, PDF pp. 312, 334, 345
• BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 9, PDF pp. 163, 169–170

More from the head and neck

• Posterior cerebral artery
• Posterior cricoarytenoid
• Precentral gyrus
• Retina
• Salpingopharyngeus
• Scalenus anterior
• Scalenus medius and posterior
• Sclera
• Skull
• Sphenoid bone
• Sternocleidomastoid
• Sternohyoid

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