restiform body

restiform body
a thick bundle of nerve fibres that conveys impulses from tracts in the spinal cord to the cortex of the anterior and posterior lobes of the cerebellum.

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  • restiform body — ˈrestəˌfȯrm noun Etymology: Latin restis rope, cord + English form more at rush : either of a pair of prominent bands of nerve fibers on the dorsal surface of the medulla oblongata that form part of the lateral boundaries of the fourth ventricle …   Useful english dictionary

  • restiform body — /res teuh fawrm /, Anat. a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum. [1825 35; restiform < NL restiformis, equiv. to L resti , comb. form of restis rope + formis FORM] * * * …   Universalium

  • restiform body — res·ti·form body res tə .fȯrm n CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE (c) * * * a thick bundle of nerve fibres that conveys impulses from tracts in the spinal cord to the cortex of the anterior and posterior lobes of the cerebellum. * * * corpus restiforme …   Medical dictionary

  • Тело Веревчатое (Restiform Body) — толстый пучок нервных волокон, по которому от спинного мозга импульсы поступают к коре передней и задней долей мозжечка. Источник: Медицинский словарь …   Медицинские термины

  • body — 1. The head, neck, trunk, and extremities. The human b., consisting of head (caput), neck (collum), trunk (truncus), and limbs (membra). 2. The material part of a human, as distinguished from the …   Medical dictionary

  • restiform — Ropelike; rope shaped; referring to the r. body, the larger (lateral) part of the inferior cerebellar peduncle; contains fibers from the spinal cord (spinocerebellar) and medulla (cuneo , olivo , reticulocerebellar, etc.) to cerebellum. [L.… …   Medical dictionary

  • Juxtarestiform body — Infobox Brain Name = PAGENAME Latin = GraySubject = GrayPage = Caption = Scheme showing the connections of the several parts of the brain. (Inferior peduncle labeled at bottom right.) Caption2 = Section of the medulla oblongata at about the… …   Wikipedia

  • ТЕЛО ВЕРЕВЧАТОЕ — (restiform body) толстый пучок нервных волокон, по которому от спинного мозга импульсы поступают к коре передней и задней долей мозжечка …   Толковый словарь по медицине

  • Nucleus — 1) In cell biology, the structure that houses the chromosomes. 2) In neuroanatomy, a group of nerve cells. * * * 1. In cytology, typically a rounded or oval mass of protoplasm within the cytoplasm of a plant or animal cell; it is surrounded by a… …   Medical dictionary

  • peduncle — 1. In neuroanatomy, term loosely applied to a variety of stalklike connecting structures in the brain, composed either exclusively of white matter ( e.g., cerebellar p.) or of white and gray matter ( e.g., cerebral p …   Medical dictionary

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