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tuberomammillary

tuberomammillary adjective: resembling tubers and/or nipples.

Adjective

tuberomammillary (not comparable)

  1. Resembling tubers and/or nipples
    • It has been hypothesized that the cholinergic BF, histaminergic tuberomammillary nucleus, and noradrenergic locus ceruleus neurons are key links in the circuit regulating arousal [28 ].2015 July 8, “Silencing of Cholinergic Basal Forebrain Neurons Using Archaerhodopsin Prolongs Slow-Wave Sleep in Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of tuberomammillary

From tubero- + mammillary.

Words formed from tuberomammillary

  • tuberomammillary nucleus

Questions about tuberomammillary

What does tuberomammillary mean?
Tuberomammillary means resembling tubers and/or nipples.
What part of speech is tuberomammillary?
Tuberomammillary is an adjective.

Words near tuberomammillary in the dictionary

  1. tuberoids
  2. tuberoinfundibular
  3. tuberomamillary
  4. tuberomammilary
  5. tuberomammillar
  6. tuberomammillary
  7. tuberon
  8. tuberons
  9. tuberoplasty
  10. tuberose
  11. tuberoses

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