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reticular formations

reticular formations is the plural of reticular formation.

Meaning of reticular formation

Noun

reticular formation (plural reticular formations)

  1. Part of the brain that is involved in actions such as awaking/sleeping cycle, and filtering incoming stimuli to discriminate irrelevant background stimuli.

Questions about reticular formations

What is reticular formations the plural of?
Reticular formations is the plural of reticular formation.

Words near reticular formations in the dictionary

  1. retics
  2. reticula
  3. reticulae
  4. reticular
  5. reticular formation
  6. reticular formations
  7. reticularian
  8. reticularians
  9. reticularity
  10. reticularization
  11. reticularizations

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