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postsubiculum

postsubiculum noun: the dorsal part of the presubiculum.

Noun

postsubiculum (plural postsubicula)

  1. The dorsal part of the presubiculum.
    • In addition to hippocampal inputs, the medial mammillary nuclei receive projections from the rostral subiculum, and the lateral mammillary nuclei receive projections from the pre-, para-, and postsubicula.2018, Jill B. Rich, “Mammillary Bodies”, in Jeffrey S. Kreutzer, John DeLuca, Bruce Caplan, editors, Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2nd edition, Springer International Publishing AG...

Forms of postsubiculum

pluralpostsubicula

Origin of postsubiculum

From post- + subiculum.

Questions about postsubiculum

What does postsubiculum mean?
Postsubiculum means the dorsal part of the presubiculum.
What part of speech is postsubiculum?
Postsubiculum is a noun.
What is the plural of postsubiculum?
The plural of postsubiculum is postsubicula.

Words near postsubiculum in the dictionary

  1. poststructurally
  2. poststudies
  3. poststudio
  4. poststudy
  5. poststyloid
  6. postsubiculum
  7. postsubject
  8. postsuborbital
  9. postsuffering
  10. postsuicidal
  11. postsuicide

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