mammillary body

短语

乳头体

词形变化

mammillary bodies 复数 mammillary bodies

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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.

    医学

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

mamillary body

整体词 3

betweenbrain diencephalon interbrain

词源

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

来源：wiktionary