LATERAL GENICULATE BODY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lateral geniculate body mean? 

• LATERAL GENICULATE BODY (noun)
  The noun LATERAL GENICULATE BODY 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 BODY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LATERAL GENICULATE BODY (noun)

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 body" 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)