Definition of Thalamocortical

1. Adjective. Relating to or connecting the cortex and thalamus. "The thalamocortical system"

Partainyms: Cortical

Definition of Thalamocortical

1. Adjective. (anatomy) Relating to, or connecting the thalamus and the cerebral cortex ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Thalamocortical

1. Relating to the efferent connections of the thalamus with the cerebral cortex. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thalamocortical

thalam-
thalamectomy
thalamencephalic
thalamencephalon
thalami
thalamic
thalamic fasciculus
thalamic gustatory nucleus
thalamic nuclei
thalamic syndrome
thalamic tenia
thalamiflorous
thalamo-
thalamocoele
thalamocoeles
thalamocortical (current term)
thalamocortical fibres
thalamocortically
thalamolenticular
thalamophora
thalamostriate vein
thalamostriate veins
thalamotomies
thalamotomy
thalamus
thalamuses

Literary usage of Thalamocortical

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

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"It seems probable, therefore, that paths run from the nucleus lentiformis through either the rubrospinal or thalamocortical system to exert an inhibitory ..."

2. Clinical medicine ; Tuesday clinics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1922)
"There are situated the cell bodies of thalamocortical neurons whose axons connect this region of the thalamus with the somesthetic area of the cerebral ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"These symptoms are possibly thalamic over-responses from thalamocortical interference at cortical levels. Certain less general symptoms often present ..."

4. The Anatomy of the Nervous System from the Standpoint of Development and by Stephen Walter Ranson (1920)
"... distribution of the fascicles, which unite the thalamus with the cerebral cortex and which consist of both thalamocortical and corticothalamic fibers. ..."

5. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the 2nd NIMH Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"McCormick, DA Cholinergic and noradrenergic modulation of thalamocortical processing. Trends in Neurosciences 12:215-221 ..."

6. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"... the optic tract end, and from the cells of which numerous fibres (thalamocortical) take origin, and radiate to almost every part of the cerebral cortex. ..."

7. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"... from thalamocortical interference at cortical levels. Certain patients show definite depressed states—with ..."

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