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Definition of Midbrain
1. Noun. The middle portion of the brain.
Generic synonyms: Neural Structure
Group relationships: Brain, Encephalon
Terms within: Locus Niger, Nucleus Niger, Substantia Nigra, Superior Colliculus, Inferior Colliculus
Definition of Midbrain
1. n. The middle segment of the brain; the mesencephalon. See Brain.
Definition of Midbrain
1. Noun. A part of the brain located rostral to the pons and caudal to the thalamus and the basal ganglia, composed of the tectum (dorsal portion) and the tegmentum (ventral portion). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Midbrain
1. the middle region of the brain [n -S]
Medical Definition of Midbrain
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Midbrain
Literary usage of Midbrain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Lesions of the midbrain (Mesencephalon) The midbrain, though anatomically a part of
... Diagram of Section Through the midbrain, at the Level of the Corpora ..."
2. The Anatomy of the Central Nervous System of Man and of Vertebrates in General by Ludwig Edinger (1899)
"THE TEGMENTUM AND THE PEDUNCLE OF THE midbrain. THE frontal sections through the
cerebrum, with description of which the previous chapter ended, ..."
3. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1905)
"The Accessory Respiratory Centers of the midbrain.—Several observers have called
attention to the existence of a possible accessory respiratory center in ..."
4. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1909)
"Such a symptom complex can scarcely be due to anything else than a lesion in the
right side and central portion of the midbrain, involving as it does both ..."
5. A Text-book of Histology and Microscopic Anatomy of the Human Body by Ladislaus Szymonowicz, John Bruce MacCallum (1902)
"... the pons into two parts, a dorsal and a ventral. Here the bundle is called
the medial lemniscus. In entering the midbrain the sheet curves outward ..."
6. A Laboratory Manual of Human Anatomy by Lewellys Franklin Barker, Dean De Witt Lewis, Daniel Graisberry Revell (1904)
"External Morphology of Rhomboid Brain and midbrain (Rhombencephalon and Mesencephalon).
Lift the cerebellum gently from behind and observe the relation of ..."
7. The Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases by William Alanson White, Smith Ely Jelliffe (1913)
"CHAPTER XIV DISEASES OF THE OPTIC THALAMUS, midbrain, AND CEREBELLUM, AND THEIR
TREATMENT BY GORDON HOLMES, MD, MRCP OPTIC THALAMUS THOSE large masses of ..."
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