Definition of Hypothalamic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the hypothalamus.

Partainyms: Hypothalamus
Derivative terms: Hypothalamus

Definition of Hypothalamic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the hypothalamus. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hypothalamic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Hypothalamic

1. Of or involving the hypothalamus. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypothalamic

hypotaurine aminotransferase
hypotaxes
hypotaxia
hypotaxis
hypotelorism
hypotension
hypotensions
hypotensive
hypotensive anaesthesia
hypotensives
hypotensor
hypotenusal
hypotenuse
hypotenuses
hypothalami
hypothalamic (current term)
hypothalamic amenorrhoea
hypothalamic histiocytoma
hypothalamic hormones
hypothalamic infundibulum
hypothalamic neoplasms
hypothalamic releasing factor
hypothalamic releasing hormone
hypothalamic sulcus
hypothalamically
hypothalamo-hypophyseal system
hypothalamocerebellar fibres
hypothalamohypophysial
hypothalamohypophysial portal circulation

Literary usage of Hypothalamic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"Forty-five of 53 animals (85%) showed persistently leucocytic (constant dies- trous) vaginal smear patterns for at least 3 weeks following hypothalamic ..."

2. Stress, Gender, and Alcohol-Seeking Behavior edited by Walter A. Hunt, Sam Zakhari (1996)
"Chapter 12 Serotonin as a Mediator of the Effects of Environmental Events on the Development of the hypothalamic- Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Michael J. Meaney, ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Lateral hypothalamic self-stimulation is suppressed more by ipsilateral than by homolateral CSD (4, 6). Repeated waves of CSD decrease hypothalamic ..."

4. Alcohols Effect on Organ Function edited by Dianne M. Welsh (1997)
"Animal studies measuring concentration of LHRH in the hypothalamic ... Thus, the hypothalamic effects on LHRH may be mediated in brain areas outside the ..."

5. Reviews in Environmental Health (1998): Toxicological Defense Mechanics edited by Gary E. R. Hook, George W. Lucier (2000)
"The generation of the LH surge is controlled by the pulsatile release of hypothalamic GnRH. This releasing factor is in turn regulated by hypothalamic ..."

6. Morris's Human Anatomy: A Complete Systematic Treatise by English and by Henry Morris, James Playfair McMurrich (1907)
"Van Gebuchten and Edinger describe for it a special nucleus situated beyond this commissure in the hypothalamic region. This nucleus may be explained as ..."

7. Neurological Bulletin by Frederick Tilney, Columbia University Dept. of Neurology, Columbia University, Dept. of Neurology (1921)
"There are others which decussate by means of the ventral commissure of Meynert and go to the opposite hypothalamic region, and to the contra-lateral ..."

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