cerebral peduncle

1. 1.

   a bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain

   Synonymspeduncle

   Broadernerve pathway

   Part offorebrain

Questions about cerebral peduncle

What does cerebral peduncle mean?

cerebral peduncle means "a bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain".

What is another word for cerebral peduncle?

Close synonyms include peduncle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cerebral peduncle a common word?

cerebral peduncle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.