lateral geniculate body

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscorpus geniculatum lateralelateral geniculate

   Broadergeniculate body

Questions about lateral geniculate body

What does lateral geniculate body mean?

lateral geniculate body means "a neural structure that serves as a processing station on the way from the retina to the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex".

What is another word for lateral geniculate body?

Close synonyms include corpus geniculatum laterale, lateral geniculate. 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 lateral geniculate body a common word?

lateral 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.