See Also: intralaminar nuclei of thalamus(medicine)
anterior nuclei of thalamus(medicine)
intralaminar part of optic nerve(medicine)
bastille(1)(dictionary)
bastille(2)(dictionary)
Bastille(dictionary)
Bastille(encyclopedia)
thalamus(dictionary)
Thalamus(medicine)
lateral nucleus of thalamus(medicine)

bastille(1) (iou) and intralaminar nuclei of thalamus (medicine)


bastille(1) (iou)



bastille noun. [ba'sti:l] Also bastile. LME.

Hist. A tower or bastion of a castle; a small fortress. LME.
In siege operations, a wooden tower on wheels, or an entrenched protective hut used by the besiegers. LME.
a. (Bastille.) The prison-fortress built in Paris in the 14th cent., and destroyed in 1789. M16.
b. A prison. E18.
Comb.: Bastille Day 14 July, the date of the storming of the Bastille in 1789, celebrated as a national holiday in France.

intralaminar nuclei of thalamus (medicine)


intralaminar nuclei of thalamus


Collective term denoting several cell groups embedded in the internal medullary lamina of the thalamus: central lateral nucleus, paracentral nucleus, and farthest caudally, the large centromedian nucleus. The first two of these receive afferents from the cerebral cortex, brainstem, reticular formation, cerebellum, and spinal cord, and project more or less diffusely to large regions of the frontal and parietal cortex.

See: centromedian nucleus.

Synonym: nuclei intralaminares thalami.