medial geniculate

1. 1.

   a neural structure that serves as the last of a series of processing centers along the auditory pathway from the cochlea to the temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex

   Synonymsmedial geniculate bodycorpus geniculatum mediale

   Broadergeniculate body

Questions about medial geniculate

What does medial geniculate mean?

medial geniculate means "a neural structure that serves as the last of a series of processing centers along the auditory pathway from the cochlea to the temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex".

What is another word for medial geniculate?

Close synonyms include medial geniculate body, corpus geniculatum mediale. 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.