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prethalamic

prethalamic adjective: relating to the prethalamus.

Adjective

prethalamic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the prethalamus
    • Previous study showed the zic family member Zic2a was involved in the regulation of two prethalamic transcription factor dlx2a and arxa.2015 July 6, “Conserved Noncoding Sequences Regulate lhx5 Expression in the Zebrafish Forebrain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of prethalamic

From pre- + thalamic.

Questions about prethalamic

What does prethalamic mean?
Prethalamic means relating to the prethalamus.
What part of speech is prethalamic?
Prethalamic is an adjective.

Words near prethalamic in the dictionary

  1. pretextuous
  2. pretexture
  3. pretextured
  4. pretextures
  5. pretexturing
  6. prethalamic
  7. prethalamus
  8. prethcamide
  9. prethe
  10. pretheater
  11. pretheatre

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