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Tuber cinereum

The tuber cinereum is an elevated mound of grey substance between the optic chiasma and the mammillary bodies. On the sides, it is bounded by the optic tracts and the cerebral peduncles. It is located in the tuberal region of the hypothalamus in the brain stem.

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