NEURAL STRUCTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neural structure mean? 

• NEURAL STRUCTURE (noun)
  The noun NEURAL STRUCTURE has 1 sense:

1. a structure that is part of the nervous system

  Familiarity information: NEURAL STRUCTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEURAL STRUCTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A structure that is part of the nervous system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("neural structure" is a kind of...):

anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "neural structure"):

locus niger; nucleus niger; substantia nigra (a layer of deeply pigmented grey matter in the midbrain; associated with the striate body; is involved in metabolic disturbances associated with Parkinson's disease and with Huntington's disease)

hippocampus (a complex neural structure (shaped like a sea horse) consisting of grey matter and located on the floor of each lateral ventricle; intimately involved in motivation and emotion as part of the limbic system; has a central role in the formation of memories)

cingulate gyrus; gyrus cinguli (a long curved structure on the medial surface of the cerebral hemispheres; the cortical part of the limbic system)

telencephalon (the anterior division of the forebrain; the cerebrum and related parts of the hypothalamus)

betweenbrain; diencephalon; interbrain; thalmencephalon (the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon)

limbic brain; limbic system; visceral brain (a system of functionally related neural structures in the brain that are involved in emotional behavior)

subthalamus (the ventral part of the thalamus)

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

hypothalamus (a basal part of the diencephalon governing autonomic nervous system)

mesencephalon; midbrain (the middle portion of the brain)

forebrain; prosencephalon (the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube)

hindbrain; rhombencephalon (the posterior portion of the brain including cerebellum and brainstem)

myelencephalon (the posterior part of the hindbrain in developing vertebrates; forms the medulla oblongata in adults)

pons; pons Varolii (a band of nerve fibers linking the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum with the midbrain)

brain-stem; brain stem; brainstem (the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus)

nucleus (any histologically identifiable mass of neural cell bodies in the brain or spinal cord)

radiation (a radial arrangement of nerve fibers connecting different parts of the brain)

medulla spinalis; spinal cord (a major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to and from the brain; a long tubelike structure extending from the base of the brain through the vertebral canal to the upper lumbar region)

ANS; autonomic nervous system (the part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands)

palaeencephalon; paleencephalon; paleoencephalon (the more primitive parts of the brain phylogenetically; most structures other than the cerebral cortex)

ganglion (an encapsulated neural structure consisting of a collection of cell bodies or neurons)

reflex arc (the neural path of a reflex)

center; centre; nerve center; nerve centre (a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process)

cerebral hemisphere; hemisphere (either half of the cerebrum)

piriform area; piriform lobe; pyriform area; pyriform lobe (pear-shaped neural structure on either side of the brain in the rhinencephalon)

olfactory bulb (one of two enlargements at the terminus of the olfactory nerve at the base of the brain just above the nasal cavities)

brain; encephalon (that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord)

neencephalon; neoencephalon (the part of the brain having the most recent phylogenetic origin; the cerebral cortex and related parts)

corpus mamillare; mamillary body; mammillary body (one of two small round structures on the undersurface of the brain that form the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix)

cerebellum (a major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans)

cerebellar hemisphere (either of two lateral lobes of the cerebellum)

vermis; vermis cerebelli (the narrow central part of the cerebellum between the two hemispheres)

paleocerebellum (the anterior lobe of the cerebellum which was one of the earliest parts of the hindbrain to develop in mammals)

cerebral cortex; cerebral mantle; cortex; pallium (the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum)

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)

cerebrum (anterior portion of the brain consisting of two hemispheres; dominant part of the brain in humans)

bulb; medulla; medulla oblongata (lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; ('bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata))