long association bundles
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The term long association bundles refers to a set of fiber tracts in the cerebral white matter that are reasonably easy to dissect but that are not readily distinguished in myelin-stained histological cross-sections. They include the cingulum, the uncinate fasciculus of the forebrain, the superior longitudinal fasciculus, the inferior longitudinal fasciculus, the subcallosal fasciculus and the inferior occipitofrontal fasciculus ( Crosby-1962 ).
Also known as: long association fibers, longitudinal association bundle
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