See Also: Familial juvenile nephronophthisis (FJN)(health)
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sixth ventricle (medicine) and Familial juvenile nephronophthisis (FJN) (health)


sixth ventricle (medicine)


sixth ventricle -->
Verga's ventricle


An inconstant, horizontal, slitlike space between the posterior one-third of the corpus callosum and the underlying commissura fornicis (commissura hippocampi; psalterium) resulting from failure of these two commissural plates to fuse completely during foetal development; like the cavity of the septum pellucidum, the space is not a true ventricle in the sense that it did not develop from the central canal of the neural tube.

Synonym: cavum psalterii, cavum vergae, sixth ventricle.


Familial juvenile nephronophthisis (FJN) (health)


A childhood genetic kidney disease in which there is progressive symmetrical destruction of the kidneys involving both the tubules and glomeruli, characteristically resulting in anemia, polyuria, polydipsia, isosthenuria (decreased ability to concentrate the urine), progressive renal failure and death in uremia. Hypertension and proteinuria are conspicuous by their absence. The chronic kidney failure affects growth and leads to short stature. The age at death ranges from around 4 to 15 years.