"reticular formation" meaning in All languages combined

See reticular formation on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: reticular formations [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} reticular formation (plural reticular formations)
  1. Part of the brain that is involved in actions such as awaking/sleeping cycle, and filtering incoming stimuli to discriminate irrelevant background stimuli Wikipedia link: reticular formation Categories (topical): Neuroanatomy Translations (part of brain): aivoverkosto (Finnish), pêkhateya torî [feminine] (Northern Kurdish)

Inflected forms

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