palaeothalamus
/ˌpalɪə(ʊ)ˈθaləməs/ /ˌpeɪlɪə(ʊ)ˈθaləməs/Anatomy and Zoology
noun
The phylogenetically older portion of the thalamus, usually taken to include its anterior and medial parts.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Stephen Walter Ranson (1880–1942). From palaeo- + thalamus, after German Palaeothalamus (L. Edinger Vorlesungen über den Bau der Nervösen Zentralorgane des Menschen u. der Tiere(ed. 8) I. 348).
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