TY - JOUR
AU - Olry, Régis
AB - Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 0964-704X/99/0803-294$15.00 1999, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 294–295 © Swets & Zeitlinger NEUROwords 7 Vague, Uncertain, Ambiguous, Obscure: Imprecision or Modesty? 1 2 Duane E. Haines and Régis Olry Department of Anatomy, University of Mississippi, USA, and Département de Chimie-Biologie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada It is stating the obvious to say that neuroanat- later, his compatriot Heinrich Obersteiner wrote: omy has not yet given away all of its secrets. ‘It should be noted that views with regard to the However, was it necessary to lay stress on this subthalamic region are still very conjectural’ fact even in the terminology itself? It is never- (Obersteiner, 1893, p. 313). According to Jules theless what happened in the last centuries, Dejerine, Forel’s zona incerta is part of the thal- when some anatomists discovered or named amus reticular formation located between both structures, such as the vagus nerve, the zona thalamic and lenticular fasciculi, and it vanishes incerta, the nucleus ambiguus, and the nucleus into the grey matter of the third ventricle raphes obscurus. (Dejerine, 1901, vol. 2, pp. 394–396). Some Unlike most of the cranial nerves which sup- years later, the French anatomist 
TI - NEUROwords 7 Vague, Uncertain, Ambiguous, Obscure: Imprecision or Modesty?
JO - Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
DO - 10.1076/jhin.8.3.294.1828
DA - 1999-12-01
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SP - 294
EP - 295
VL - 8
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