mammillary body

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One of a pair of small round bodies, located on the undersurface of the human brain, that act as a relay for impulses coming from the amygdalae and hippocampi to the thalamus, and (as part of the diencephalon) form part of the limbic system.
    — The mammillary body is the most posterior part of the hypothalamus; there exist medially large and small cell divisions.

词形变化

mammillary bodies plural

词源

From mammillary (“resembling a breast or nipple”) + body.
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