geniculate body

1. 1.

   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

   Broaderneural structure

   Narrowerlateral geniculate bodymedial geniculate body

   Part ofthalamus

Questions about geniculate body

What does geniculate body mean?

geniculate body means "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".

Is geniculate body a common word?

geniculate body 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.