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diencephalon

brain structures lateral to the fourth ventricle, including the thalamus, hypothalamus, epithalamus, and subthalamus
Class type of: brain region, segment of forebrain, particular anatomical entity Q192419

Facts

9 properties
Instance of
organ type, class of anatomical entity[6]
Subclass of
brain region, segment of forebrain, particular anatomical entity, animal organ
Part of
prosencephalon[7]
Described by source
Gray's Anatomy (20th edition)[12]
Development of anatomical structure
diencephalon development[16]
Develops from
diencephalon[15]
Has part(s)
epithalamus, thalamus, subthalamus, hypothalamus[8][9][10][11]
NCI Thesaurus ID
C12456[14]
Topic has template
Template:Diencephalon[13]
🏷️ Also known as
en diencephalon ar دماغ بيني ar الدماغ البيني cs diencephalon cs mezimozek cs diencefalon da Diencephalon da mellemhjerne de Zwischenhirn es Diencefalo es diencéfalo es Diencephalon fa دیانسفال fi diencephalon fi väliaivot fr diencephale fr diencéphale he מוח הביניים hu köztiagy ja 間脳
🔖 Identifiers · 40
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85037801
GND ID
4191343-7
OpenAlex ID
C2775969318
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Diencephalon small.gif ↗
BNCF Thesaurus ID
23822
BVPB authority ID
101800
BabelNet ID
00010177n
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
120411959
Brenda Tissue Ontology ID
BTO:0000342
Dewey Decimal Classification
573.9 (573.9–612.8, n=3)
Encyclopedia of China (Second Edition) ID
211102
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/interbrain
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Foundational Model of Anatomy ID
62001
Freebase ID
/m/0396ty
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
diencefal
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0099095
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
3180039
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
promezhutochnyi-mozg-4a3b15
Interlex ID
birnlex_1503
J9U entity ID
987007553028605171
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
diencephalon
KBpedia ID
Diencephalon
MeSH descriptor ID
D004027
MeSH tree code
A08.186.211.200.317
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2775969318, 2910573313
NL CR AUT ID
ph966371
Quora topic ID
Diencephalon
SNOMED CT ID
279328001
Store medisinske leksikon ID
mellomhjernen
TA2 ID
5661
TA98 Latin term
diencephalon
Terminologia Anatomica 98 ID
A14.1.03.007, A14.1.08.001
Terminologia Histologica
H3.11.03.5.00001
Topic's main category
Category:Diencephalon
UBERON ID
0001894
UMLS CUI
C0012144
WikiSkripta article ID
14946
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
05504641-n
Xenopus Anatomical Ontology ID
XAO_0000013
Yale LUX ID
concept/7103f0f5-2d00-4e58-b992-48ca0b0ac473

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🔗 Connections
Has part(s) 4
hypothalamus, thalamus, epithalamus, subthalamus
Has these parts 4
hypothalamus, thalamus, epithalamus, subthalamus
Belongs to 1
prosencephalon
Part of 1
prosencephalon
Topic has template 1
Template:Diencephalon
Topic's main category 1
Category:Diencephalon
← Anatomical location 1
thalamus
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Diencephalon
← Template has topic 1
Template:Diencephalon
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Summary

diencephalon is an organ type[1]. diencephalon is a type of brain region[2], segment of forebrain[3], particular anatomical entity[4], and animal organ[5].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Terminologia Anatomica. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . bartleby.com. Retrieved . bartleby.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5h ago · Magnus Manske · 2026-11-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    BVPB authority ID → 101800
    "Created claim: BVPB authority ID: 101800, batch #294593"
  2. 4d ago · Trummler12 · 2026-11-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → brain region, segment of forebrain, particular anatomical entity +1
    "Created claim: Subclass of: animal organ, #temporary_batch_1793892883525"
  3. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Develops from → diencephalon
    Instance of → organ type, class of anatomical entity
    Part of → prosencephalon
    Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017) → 3180039
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007553028605171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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