LATERAL GENICULATE BODY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A neural structure that serves as a processing station on the way from the retina to the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex

Synonyms:

corpus geniculatum laterale; lateral geniculate; lateral geniculate body

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("lateral geniculate body" 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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