NeuroNames is an integrated nomenclature for structures in the brain and spinal cord of the four species most studied by neuroscientists: human, macaque, rat and mouse.
It offers a standard, controlled vocabulary of common names for structures, which is suitable for unambiguous neuroanatomical indexing of information in digital databases.
Terms in the standard vocabulary have been selected for ease of pronunciation, mnemonic value, and frequency of use in recent neuroscientific publications.
The nomenclature is maintained by the University of Washington and is the core component of a tool called "BrainInfo".
NeuroNames is a source vocabulary of the Metathesaurus of the Unified Medical Language System.