"mammillary body" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "From mammillary (“resembling a breast or nipple”) + body.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mammillary bodies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mammillary body (plural mammillary bodies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Anatomy",
          "orig": "en:Anatomy",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "lateral mammillary nucleus"
        },
        {
          "english": "principal components",
          "word": "medial mammillary nucleus"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Robert Melillo, Gerry Leisman, Neurobehavioral Disorders of Childhood: An Evolutionary Perspective, page 99",
          "text": "The mammillary body is the most posterior part of the hypothalamus; there exist medially large and small cell divisions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Thomas P. Naidich, Henri M. Duvernoy, Bradley N. Delman, Duvernoy's Atlas of the Human Brain Stem and Cerebellum, page 380",
          "text": "The anterior column of the fornix extends inferiorly to converge upon the anterolateral aspect of the mammillary body.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Kenneth M. Heilman, Edward Valenstein, Clinical Neuropsychology, page 521",
          "text": "Mair, Warrington, and Weiskrantz (1979) suggested that the mammillary body lesions (present in each of these patients) may account for the memory loss. Lesions restricted to the mammillary bodies have not been associated with deficits on DNMS tasks in monkeys (Aggleton & Mishkin, 1985); however, deficits have been found on spatial memory tasks in monkeys (Parker & Gaffan, 1997) and in rats (Sziklas & Petrides, 1998).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "id": "en-mammillary_body-en-noun-BgvnYGh0",
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "brain",
          "brain"
        ],
        [
          "amygdalae",
          "amygdala"
        ],
        [
          "hippocampi",
          "hippocampus"
        ],
        [
          "thalamus",
          "thalamus"
        ],
        [
          "diencephalon",
          "diencephalon"
        ],
        [
          "limbic system",
          "limbic system"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) 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."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "diencephalon"
        },
        {
          "word": "hypothalamus"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "anatomy",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "mamilární tělísko"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "mastío egkefálou",
          "sense": "anatomy",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "μαστίο εγκεφάλου"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "anatomy",
          "word": "ciało suteczkowate"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "mammillary body"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mammillary body"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "lateral mammillary nucleus"
    },
    {
      "english": "principal components",
      "word": "medial mammillary nucleus"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mammillary (“resembling a breast or nipple”) + body.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mammillary bodies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mammillary body (plural mammillary bodies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "diencephalon"
    },
    {
      "word": "hypothalamus"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Anatomy"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Robert Melillo, Gerry Leisman, Neurobehavioral Disorders of Childhood: An Evolutionary Perspective, page 99",
          "text": "The mammillary body is the most posterior part of the hypothalamus; there exist medially large and small cell divisions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Thomas P. Naidich, Henri M. Duvernoy, Bradley N. Delman, Duvernoy's Atlas of the Human Brain Stem and Cerebellum, page 380",
          "text": "The anterior column of the fornix extends inferiorly to converge upon the anterolateral aspect of the mammillary body.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Kenneth M. Heilman, Edward Valenstein, Clinical Neuropsychology, page 521",
          "text": "Mair, Warrington, and Weiskrantz (1979) suggested that the mammillary body lesions (present in each of these patients) may account for the memory loss. Lesions restricted to the mammillary bodies have not been associated with deficits on DNMS tasks in monkeys (Aggleton & Mishkin, 1985); however, deficits have been found on spatial memory tasks in monkeys (Parker & Gaffan, 1997) and in rats (Sziklas & Petrides, 1998).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "brain",
          "brain"
        ],
        [
          "amygdalae",
          "amygdala"
        ],
        [
          "hippocampi",
          "hippocampus"
        ],
        [
          "thalamus",
          "thalamus"
        ],
        [
          "diencephalon",
          "diencephalon"
        ],
        [
          "limbic system",
          "limbic system"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) 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."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "mammillary body"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "anatomy",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "mamilární tělísko"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "mastío egkefálou",
      "sense": "anatomy",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "μαστίο εγκεφάλου"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "anatomy",
      "word": "ciało suteczkowate"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mammillary body"
}