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GENICULATE BODY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of four small oval masses that protrude slightly from the underside of the thalamus and function as synaptic centers on the way to the cerebral cortex

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("geniculate body" is a kind of...):

neural structure (a structure that is part of the nervous system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "geniculate body"):

corpus geniculatum laterale; lateral geniculate; lateral geniculate body (a neural structure that serves as a processing station on the way from the retina to the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex)

corpus geniculatum mediale; medial geniculate; medial geniculate body (a neural structure that serves as the last of a series of processing centers along the auditory pathway from the cochlea to the temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex)

Holonyms ("geniculate body" is a part of...):

thalamus (large egg-shaped structures of grey matter that form the dorsal subdivision of the diencephalon)

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