Word.ws English Dictionary

corticomesencephalic

corticomesencephalic adjective: relating to the cerebral cortex and mesencephalon.

Adjective

corticomesencephalic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the cerebral cortex and mesencephalon.
    • DLPFC (grey region) innervates VTA nuclei (pink) located in the midbrain through corticomesencephalic glutamatergic projections (red).2015 December 5, “Stochastic Mesocortical Dynamics and Robustness of Working Memory during Delay-Period”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of corticomesencephalic

From cortico- + mesencephalic.

Questions about corticomesencephalic

What does corticomesencephalic mean?
Corticomesencephalic means relating to the cerebral cortex and mesencephalon.
What part of speech is corticomesencephalic?
Corticomesencephalic is an adjective.

Words near corticomesencephalic in the dictionary

  1. corticomedullar
  2. corticomedullary
  3. corticomelanotroph
  4. corticomelanotrophs
  5. corticomeningeal
  6. corticomesencephalic
  7. corticomesolimbic
  8. corticometric
  9. corticometry
  10. corticomotoneural
  11. corticomotoneuron

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: corticomesencephalic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “corticomesencephalic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/corticomesencephalic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.