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The largest commissure of the brain. Connects the two halves of the cerebrum and forms the floor of the longitudinal fissure of cerebrum. Consists of four parts: splenium, trunk, genu and rostrum.
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(2009). Corpus Callosum. In: Binder, M.D., Hirokawa, N., Windhorst, U. (eds) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_1275
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