tegmental

About 0.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of or pertaining to tegmentum, or the ventral portion of the mesencephalon.

   The projections to the frontal lobe that are damaged in schizophrenia originate in the ventral tegmental area.

Similar words

decussation mesencephalic tegminal mesoencephalic tegmic metencephalic mammillotegmental mesenphalic pallidotegmental tectal

Often followed by

area nucleus tract field nuclei decussation region and lesions neurons