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Definition of Geniculate body
1. Noun. 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.
Specialized synonyms: Corpus Geniculatum Laterale, Lateral Geniculate, Lateral Geniculate Body, Corpus Geniculatum Mediale, Medial Geniculate, Medial Geniculate Body
Group relationships: Thalamus
Medical Definition of Geniculate body
1. See: lateral geniculate body, medial geniculate body. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geniculate Body
Literary usage of Geniculate body
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"no hemianopia.1 So that the external geniculate body is by far the most important,
if not the only primary center of vision. Flechsig has shown that in the ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The external geniculate body is of a dark color, and presents a ..u arrangement,
... The internal geniculate body is smaller in size, lighter in color, ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The internal geniculate body is smaller in size, lighter in color, and does not
present a laminated arrangement. It receives the posterior brachium from the ..."
4. A Textbook of Human Physiology: Including a Section on Physiologic Apparatus. by Albert Philson Brubaker (1922)
"The External geniculate body.—The external or lateral geniculate body is a terminal
station for a portion of the fine visual fibers coming from the retina. ..."
5. Annals of Ophthalmology (1904)
"EXTERNAL geniculate body. Regarding the visual function of the external geniculate
body, experimenters and clinicians, with striking unanimity, ..."
6. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer, George Dancer Thane, Johnson Symington (1893)
"The two are separated by a part of the optic tract which sweeps round the internal
geniculate body in passing as the superior ..."
7. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1921)
"corresponding inferior colliculus and disappears from view, under cover of the
medial geniculate body. Many of the fibres of which it is composed pass ..."
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