Crossword clues for midbrain
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Midbrain \Mid"brain`\, n. [Mid, a. + brain.] (Anat.) The middle segment of the brain; the mesencephalon. See Brain.
Wiktionary
n. (context neuroanatomy English) A part of the brain located rostral to the pons and caudal to the thalamus and the basal ganglia, composed of the tectum (dorsal portion) and the tegmentum (ventral portion).
WordNet
n. the middle portion of the brain [syn: mesencephalon]
Wikipedia
The midbrain or mesencephalon (from the Greek mesos, middle, and enkephalos, brain) is a portion of the central nervous system associated with vision, hearing, motor control, sleep/wake, arousal ( alertness), and temperature regulation.
Usage examples of "midbrain".
That swelling corresponds in higher animals to the hindbrain or brainstem and the midbrain.
One of the most engaging views of the subsequent evolution of the brain is a story of the successive accretion and specialization of three further layers surmounting the spinal cord, hindbrain and midbrain.
This combination of spinal cord, hindbrain and midbrain MacLean calls the neural chassis.
It is the smallest of the cranial nerves and extends from the midbrain to a muscle that helps to move the eyeball one of the muscles not innervated by the oculomotor nerve.
It is our hypothesis that humans have not one mind but four, located in the midbrain, cerebellum, and left and right cerebra respectively, and that it is the conflict between these four minds that gives rise to emotion.
The most ancient of them surrounds the midbrain (and is made up mostly of what neuroanatomists call the olfactostriatum, the corpus striatum, and the globus pallidus).
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.
The optic nerves from the two eyes extend backward and join at the midbrain.