Crossword clues for diencephalon
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diencephalon \Di`en*ceph"a*lon\, n. [NL. See Dia-, and Encephalon.] (Anat.) The interbrain or thalamencephalon; -- sometimes abbreviated to dien. See Thalamencephalon. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. (context neuroanatomy English) The region of the human brain, specifically the human forebrain, that includes the thalamus, the hypothalamus, the epithalamus, the prethalamus or subthalamus, and the pretectum.
WordNet
n. the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon [syn: interbrain, betweenbrain, thalmencephalon]
Wikipedia
The diencephalon is part of the prosencephalon (forebrain), which develops from the foremost primary cerebral vesicle. The prosencephalon differentiates into a caudal diencephalon and rostral telencephalon. The cerebral hemispheres develop from the sides of the telencephalon, each containing a lateral ventricle. The diencephalon consists of structures that are lateral to the third ventricle, and include the thalamus, the hypothalamus, the epithalamus and the subthalamus.
Usage examples of "diencephalon".
Yes, there was the telencephalon and there the diencephalon, with the thalamus and epithalamus and metathalamus.
Type C MIF raises micelle levels in the diencephalon four hundred-fold.
She breathed through the top of her head and felt the cool relaxation come up from the smooth functionings of the diencephalon, the oldest part of the brain, which sat on the end of the spinal cord like a ball joint and let the hemispheres of the cerebrum tilt crazily about it while itself remaining still.
Yes, there was the telencephalon and there the diencephalon, with the thalamus and epithalamus and metathalamus.
G), because this is the end of the central nervous system if you work from the bottom up, whereas the basal ganglia, thalamus, and hypothalamus are the diencephalon {"between-brain" G}.
It has been carpeted over by the cerebrum, but it is there, deep within the forebrain, and consists of the limbic lobe, the hypothalamus, and, perhaps, other organs of the diencephalon.
For reasons of its own, evolution allowed mammalian energy to hold sway, and the recently developed human midbrain or mesencephalon, which had folded over the old diencephalon, could be accurately labeled a mammal brain.