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inferior colliculus
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | inferior colliculus - an essential auditory center in the midbrainnerve center, nerve centre, center, centre - a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process; "in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere"mesencephalon, midbrain - the middle portion of the brain |
inferior colliculus
inferior colliculus[in′fir·ē·ər kə′lik·yə·ləs] (neuroscience) One of the posterior pair of rounded eminences arising from the dorsal portion of the mesencephalon. inferior colliculus
in·fe·ri·or col·lic·u·lus [TA] the ovoid, paired, inferior eminence of the laminae of mesencephalic tectum; it receives the lateral lemniscus and projects by way of the brachium of inferior colliculus to the medial geniculate body of the thalamus, and is thus an essential way station in the central auditory pathway. Synonym(s): colliculus inferior [TA], corpus quadrigeminum posterius, inferior nasal colliculus, posterior quadrigeminal bodyinferior colliculus
Related to inferior colliculus: red nucleus, Lateral lemniscus, Medial geniculate nucleusWords related to inferior colliculusnoun an essential auditory center in the midbrainRelated Words- nerve center
- nerve centre
- center
- centre
- mesencephalon
- midbrain
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