"colliculogeniculate" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: colliculo- + geniculate Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|colliculo|geniculate}} colliculo- + geniculate Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} colliculogeniculate (not comparable)
  1. Pertaining to the connection between the inferior colliculus or superior colliculus and the geniculate nucleus. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-colliculogeniculate-en-adj-wMKNb7Uc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with colliculo-

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          "ref": "1963, Louis Hausman, Clinical Neuroanatomy, with a Method of Brain Reconstruction, page 40",
          "text": "Some of the cells of the inferior colliculi send commissural fibers to the opposite colliculus; others send colliculogeniculate fibers (inferior brachium) to the medial geniculate body of the thalamus; some to the superior colliculus (acustico-optic fibers) and some to the cerebellum (tectocerebellar fibers).",
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          "ref": "2012, D. Kent Morest, Jeffery A. Winer, The Comparative Anatomy of Neurons",
          "text": "These may correspond to the thin colliculogeniculate endings previously described in the cat ventral nucleus (Morest 1975: Fig. 7, top) and, perhaps, to the phalangiform axons seen in the dorsal division (W iner and Morest 1984).",
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          "ref": "2013, William D. Neff -, Contributions to Sensory Physiology, page 62",
          "text": "These data suggest that at birth the colliculogeniculate projection is more mature than the corticogeniculate projection but less developed than the retinogeniculate pathway.",
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