midbrain cerebral aqueduct

Part of ventricular system of brain consisting of a narrow channel in the midbrain connecting the third and fourth ventricles. (Maryann Martone). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the midbrain cerebral aqueduct is

Part of ventricular system of brain consisting of a narrow channel in the midbrain connecting the third and fourth ventricles. (Maryann Martone). The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the human body.

Where the midbrain cerebral aqueduct is

It sits within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the midbrain cerebral aqueduct connects to

The atlas records 3 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of midbrain.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the midbrain cerebral aqueduct. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as Sylvian aqueduct, aqueduct (Sylvius), aqueduct of Sylvius, aqueduct of midbrain, aqueductus mesencephali and cerebral aquaduct, and 11 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002289, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the midbrain cerebral aqueduct?

It sits within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the midbrain cerebral aqueduct connect to?

Part of: midbrain.

Is the midbrain cerebral aqueduct the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.