thalamocortical

1. 1.

   relating to or connecting the cortex and thalamus

   “the thalamocortical system”

Questions about thalamocortical

What does thalamocortical mean?

thalamocortical means "relating to or connecting the cortex and thalamus".

How many syllables are in thalamocortical?

thalamocortical has 6 syllables and divides as tha-la-mo-cor-ti-cal under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is thalamocortical a common word?

thalamocortical 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.