HyperDic: medial_geniculate

English > 1 sense of the expression medial geniculate:
NOUNbodymedial geniculate, medial geniculate body, corpus geniculatum medialea 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
English > medial geniculate: 1 sense > noun 1, body
MeaningA 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.
Synonymsmedial geniculate body, corpus geniculatum mediale
Broadergeniculate bodyOne 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
Spanishcorpus geniculatum mediale

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