geniculate body in English
noun
1
either of two protuberances on the inferior surface of the thalamus that relay auditory and visual impulses respectively to the cerebral cortex.
At the rear end of the thalamus are the smaller medial and lateral geniculate nuclei , relaying auditory and visual pathways, respectively, to the auditory and visual areas of the cortex.
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1. The Brachium of superior colliculus (or superior Brachium) is a branch that extends laterally from the superior colliculus, and, passing between the pulvinar and medial geniculate body, is partly continued into an eminence called the lateral geniculate body, and partly into the optic tract.