Term Name:	ventral nucleus of medial geniculate body
Synonyms:	medial geniculate complex ventral part, medial geniculate nucleus ventral part, medial nucleus of medial geniculate complex, MGV, nucleus corporis geniculati medialis, pars ventralis, nucleus geniculatus medialis fasciculosus (hassler), nucleus geniculatus medialis pars ventralis, ventral nucleus, ventral nucleus of the medial geniculate body, VMG
Definition:	Ventral division of medial geniculate body, first described by Morest (1964) in the cat, but found in primate, mouse and rat as well. It begins midway in the posterior third of the medial geniculate in the cat and is prominant anteriorly. The boundary between the dorsal and ventral divisions is demarcated in rat by a thick horizontally oriented axon bundle, the midgeniculate bundle (Webster, 1995, fig 16).
Ontology:	Uberon Ontology [UBERON:0002985]