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Definition of Dentate nucleus
1. Noun. A large laminar nucleus of grey matter within the white matter of each cerebral hemisphere.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dentate Nucleus
Literary usage of Dentate nucleus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"Furthermore a degeneration could be traced in the fibers surrounding the dentate
nucleus of the restiform body and in the olives. ..."
2. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer, George Dancer Thane, Johnson Symington (1893)
"Nuclei in the white matter of the cerebellum.—The dentate nucleus (corpus ciliare,
corpus dentatum) of the cerebellum (figs. 59 C, and 60, nd), very Ch, ..."
3. A Manual of Physiology: With Practical Exercises by George Neil Stewart (1918)
"The superior peduncle connects chiefly the dentate nucleus of one side with the
cortex of the opposite cerebral hemisphere through the red nucleus of the ..."
4. An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy by Joseph Leidy (1889)
"Between the dentate nucleus and the median line of the vermis in each hemisphere
there are several smaller and less conspicuous accumulations of gray matter ..."
5. The Anatomy of the Nervous System from the Standpoint of Development and by Stephen Walter Ranson (1920)
"The dentate nucleus is well developed only in those animals which possess large
cerebellar hemispheres. It receives fibers from the cortex of the cere- ..."
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