mushroom body

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Either of a pair of structures in the brains of insects and some other arthropods thought to be involved in learning and memory.
    — In fruit flies the cyclic AMP system seems to be especially active in brain regions called mushroom bodies, toadstool-shaped extrusions of neurons in the fruit fly brain.

词形变化

词源

From mushroom + body, after German pilzhutförmiger Körper.
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