GENICULATE BODY

 Dictionary entry overview: What does geniculate body mean? 

• GENICULATE BODY (noun)
  The noun GENICULATE BODY has 1 sense:

1. one of four small oval masses that protrude slightly from the underside of the thalamus and function as synaptic centers on the way to the cerebral cortex

  Familiarity information: GENICULATE BODY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENICULATE BODY (noun)

Meaning:

One of four small oval masses that protrude slightly from the underside of the thalamus and function as synaptic centers on the way to the cerebral cortex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("geniculate body" is a kind of...):

neural structure (a structure that is part of the nervous system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "geniculate body"):

corpus geniculatum laterale; lateral geniculate body (a neural structure that serves as a processing station on the way from the retina to the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex)

corpus geniculatum mediale; medial geniculate body (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)

Holonyms ("geniculate body" is a part of...):

thalamus (large egg-shaped structures of grey matter that form the dorsal subdivision of the diencephalon)