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Definition of Reticular formation

1. Noun. A complex neural network in the central core of the brainstem; monitors the state of the body and functions in such processes as arousal and sleep and attention and muscle tone.

Definition of Reticular formation

1. Noun. Part of the brain that is involved in actions such as awaking/sleeping cycle, and filtering incoming stimuli to discriminate irrelevant background stimuli ¹

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Medical Definition of Reticular formation

1. A region extending from the pons & medulla oblongata through the mesencephalon, characterised by a diversity of neurons of various sizes and shapes, arranged in different aggregations and enmeshed in a complicated fibre network. (12 Dec 1998)

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Literary usage of Reticular formation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer, George Dancer Thane, Johnson Symington (1893)
"The cells are especially large and numerous in the reticular formation of the ... The longitudinal fibres of the reticular formation of the anterior area ..."

2. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1893)
"In all regions of the cord a number of cells are found associated with this reticular formation, forming the group of the lateral reticular formation (Figs. ..."

3. The Anatomy of the Nervous System from the Standpoint of Development and by Stephen Walter Ranson (1920)
"In the reticular formation it occupies a position ventromedial to the ... THE reticular formation 88. Study the reticular formation in the various sections. ..."

4. A Text-book of physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"In all regions of the cord a number of cells are found associated with this reticular formation, forming the group of the lateral reticular Jornal ion (Figs ..."

5. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The neck of the cornu becomes broken up into a reticular formation by the ... The longitudinal fibres of the reticular formation in the lateral area are not ..."

6. An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy by Joseph Leidy (1889)
"The reticular formation commences in the lower part of the oblongata through ... A decussation of the fibres of the reticular formation in the median line ..."

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