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LATERAL GENICULATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lateral geniculate mean?
• LATERAL GENICULATE (noun)
The noun LATERAL GENICULATE has 1 sense:
1. a neural structure that serves as a processing station on the way from the retina to the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex
Familiarity information: LATERAL GENICULATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A neural structure that serves as a processing station on the way from the retina to the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
corpus geniculatum laterale; lateral geniculate; lateral geniculate body
Hypernyms ("lateral geniculate" is a kind of...):
geniculate body (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)
Context examples
The largest projection is to the lateral geniculate nuclei; other important targets include the superior colliculi and the suprachiasmatic nuclei.
(Murine Optic Nerve, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
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