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Definition of Tectal
1. pertaining to a tectum [adj] - See also: tectum
Medical Definition of Tectal
1. Relating to a tectum. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tectal
Literary usage of Tectal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Physiological Psychology: A Treatise of the Activities and by George Trumbull Ladd, Robert Sessions Woodworth (1911)
"Fronto - spinal (cortico - spinal), direct Quinto-spinal; Quinto-thalamic.
and crossed; Fronto-bulbar; Fronto- Retino - thalamic and Retino - tectal pontine ..."
2. Elements of Physiological Psychology: A Treatise of the Activities and by George Trumbull Ladd, Robert Sessions Woodworth (1911)
"Tecto-bulbar; Tecto-spinal, lateral and Spino-cerebellar; Spino-olivary; Spino-
medial. tectal; Spino-thalamic. Thalamo-spinal; Thalamo-olivary; ..."
3. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1903)
"Posteriorly this portion overlaps the parietal, and antero-laterally rests on
the anterior prolongation of the trabecula, known as the tectal cartilage. ..."
4. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1903)
"Posteriorly this portion overlaps the parietal, and antero-laterally rests on
the anterior prolongation of the trabecula, known as the tectal cartilage. ..."
5. Chondrocranium, Amphibia by Henry Fox, Oliver Perry Hay, William A. Hilton, Henry Spencer Houghton, Benjamin Freeman Kingsbury, John Sterling Kingsley, Walter George Ridewood, W. H. van Seters, Guy Munroe Winslow (1890)
"From its posterior end a cylindrical rod, the tectal cartilage (te) ...
passes backward to the tectal cartilage, fusing with it at a point just above the ..."
6. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"... nd, tectal nuclei; co, descending path from tectal nuclei to superior olive;
cs, superior cerebellar peduncle; rn, ..."
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