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    LATERAL GENICULATE

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     I. (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 cortexplay

    Synonyms:

    corpus geniculatum laterale; lateral geniculate; lateral geniculate body

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    Nouns denoting body parts

    Hypernyms ("lateral geniculate" 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)

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