HyperDic: medial_geniculate_body

English > 1 sense of the expression medial geniculate body:
NOUNbodymedial geniculate body, corpus geniculatum mediale, medial geniculatea 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 body: 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.
Synonymscorpus geniculatum mediale, medial geniculate
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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