mammillary body
21fasciculus — 1. SYN: fascicle. 2. SYN: cord. 3. SYN: bundle. [L. dim. of fascis, bundle] f. anterior musculi palatopharyngei [TA] SYN: anterior fascicle of palatopharyngeus (muscle). anterior f. proprius [TA] SYN: fasciculi proprii …
22area — 1. [TA] Any circumscribed surface or space. 2. All of the part supplied by a given artery or nerve. 3. A part of an organ having a special function, as the motor a. of the brain. SEE ALSO …
23Papez circuit — Described by James Papez in 1937, the Papez circuit of the brain is one of the major pathways of the limbic system and is chiefly involved in the cortical control of emotion. The Papez circuit plays a role in storing memory. Papez discovered the… …
24Isothalamus — The isothalamus is a division used by some researchers in describing the thalamus. [Percheron, G. (2003) Thalamus . In Paxinos, G. and May, J.(eds). The human nervous system . 2d Ed. Elsevier. Amsterdam. pp.592 675] .The isothalamus constitutes… …
25nucleus mammillaris lateralis — [TA] lateral nucleus of mammillary body: the smaller of the two main nuclei of the mammillary body, which receive fibers from the basal olfactory areas and the fornix, and project to the thalamus and midbrain via mammillothalamic and… …
26nucleus mammillaris medialis — [TA] medial nucleus of mammillary body: the larger, predominant mass of cells, forming the medial of the two main nuclei of the mammillary body, which receive fibers from the basal olfactory areas and the fornix, and project to the thalamus and… …
27nervous system, human — ▪ anatomy Introduction system that conducts stimuli from sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord and that conducts impulses back to other parts of the body. As with other higher vertebrates, the human nervous system has two main… …
28corpus — 1. SYN: body. 2. Any body or mass. 3. The main part of an organ or other anatomic structure, as distinguished from the head or tail. SEE ALSO: body, diaphysis, soma. [L …
29Pineal gland — Diagram of pituitary and pineal glands in the human brain Latin glandula pinealis Gray s …
30Medial geniculate nucleus — Brain: Medial geniculate nucleus Thalamic nuclei: MNG = Midline nuclear group AN = Anterior nuclear group MD = Medial dorsal nucleus VNG = Ventral nuclear group VA = Ventral anterior nucleus VL = Ventr …
