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

1 sense of medial geniculate body

Sense 1
medial geniculate body, corpus geniculatum mediale, medial geniculate -- (a neural structure that serves as the last of a series of processing centers along the auditory pathway from the cochlea to the temporal 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)