====== Median eminence ======

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The residual [[recess]] on the third ventricle floor is called the [[median eminence]]. 

The median eminence is part of the inferior boundary for the [[hypothalamus]] part of the human brain. A small swelling on the [[tuber cinereum]] posterior to the [[infundibulum]] – atop the pituitary stalk – the median eminence lies in the area roughly bounded on its posterolateral region by the cerebral peduncles, and on its anterolateral region by the [[optic chiasm]].

The median eminence is one of the seven areas of the brain devoid of a blood-brain barrier. It is sometimes considered one of the circumventricular organs.