midbrain

About 0.89 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A part of the brain located rostral to the pons and caudal to the thalamus and the basal ganglia, composed of the tectum (dorsal portion) and the tegmentum (ventral portion).

Similar words

mesencephalon tegmentum afterbrain mesopontine thalamencephalon betweenbrain ventral tegmentum pretectum subthalamus thalamus

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mesencephalon midbrains