inferior colliculus

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   an essential auditory center in the midbrain

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   Part ofmidbrain

Questions about inferior colliculus

What does inferior colliculus mean?

inferior colliculus means "an essential auditory center in the midbrain".

Is inferior colliculus a common word?

inferior colliculus 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.