Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun lateral_geniculate

1 sense of lateral geniculate

Sense 1
lateral geniculate body, corpus geniculatum laterale, lateral geniculate -- (a neural structure that serves as a processing station on the way from the retina to the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex)
       => geniculate body -- (one of four small oval masses that protrude slightly from the underside of the thalamus and function as synaptic centers on the way to the cerebral cortex)