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hypothalamic

a. Of or pertaining to the hypothalamus.

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hypothalamic

adj. of or relating to the hypothalamus

Usage examples of "hypothalamic".

An impaired hypothalamic hormone secretion led to an inadequate gonadotrophic secretion, which in turn blocked ovulation .

Some small hypothalamic proteins have been identified tentatively in the third ventricle of the brain, which connects the hypothalamus with the thalamus, a region also within the limbic system.

The lowest brain as a point of devolution would be the primal brain: the hypothalamic brain.

He was given drugs: delta-sleep-inducing peptides, hypothalamic inhibitors, euphorics.

An impaired hypothalamic hormone secretion led to an inadequate gonadotrophic secretion, which in turn blocked ovulation.

Changes in the water concentration in the blood stimulate a particular hypothalamic center first, and it is the hypothalamus that then sets off the posterior pituitary.

On the other hand, if the cortex is unusually stimulated, the failure of the hypothalamic signals may be insufficient to induce sleep.

This quasi-criminal programme of impregnation under hypothalamic anaesthetization can lead only to disaster —of this I am convinced!

Stress reaction developing hypothalamic stimulation, pituitary and adrenal cortex, secretion of cortin, pulse rising, the organism responding to the brain's warning of danger to come.

Her brain tissue is saturated with a hypothalamic neurosecretion, remarkably similar to a chemical normally found in hibernating mammals.

Breathing is wholly unnecessary, but suppression of the breathing reflex is disturbing unless you hack your hypothalamic map, and most homomorphic uploads don't want to do that.

A hypothalamic hormone present in mammals which acts on the pituitary gland.