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The corpus callosum is the main commissure (bundle of neural fibers crossing the midline and connecting the two cerebral hemispheres). It is made up of four parts, from front to back: rostrum, genu, body, and splenium.
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Bault, JP., Loeuillet, L. (2015). Detailled Study of Certain Brain Structures. In: The Normal and Pathological Fetal Brain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19971-9_3
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