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Engraving of the base of the brain showing the cranial nerves as depicted by Sir William Gowers

Engraving from Gowers’ A Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System, 1888. The cranial nerves are indicated by Roman numerals. Abbreviations: Th, thalamus; t c, tuber cinereum; h, pituitary body ("hypophysis cerebri"); P, peduncle; P V, pons varioli; a, corpora abicantia [sic]; Ce, cerebellum; pa, anterior pyramid; o, olivary body. (After Henle). (Public domain.)

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