MEDIAL GENICULATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does medial geniculate mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDIAL GENICULATE (noun)

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Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

corpus geniculatum mediale; medial geniculate; medial geniculate body

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

geniculate body (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)