This page gathers the 332 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Neuroscience”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 4 of 4: from “thermal sensation” to “zygomatic nerve”.
- thermal sensation noun The sensory perception of thermal stimuli.
- tic noun A sudden, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization.
- tingle immunity noun A phenomenon where a person becomes desensitized to ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) triggers due to overstimulation.
- tonic adj In a state of continuous unremitting action.
- tonotopy noun The spatial arrangement of the processing of sounds of different frequencies within the auditory system.
- torpedo noun A focal ovoid swelling on the axons of Purkinje cells, observed in several diseases such as essential tremor and spinocerebellar ataxia.
- trifacial noun trigeminal nerve
- trigeminal noun Ellipsis of trigeminal nerve.
- trigeminal ganglion noun A large flattened sensory root ganglion of the trigeminal nerve that lies within the skull and behind the orbit.
- trigeminal nerve noun Each of the fifth and largest pair of cranial nerves responsible for sensation and motor function in the face and mouth.
- triune brain noun A discredited model of the brain according to which the reptilian complex, the paleomammalian complex (limbic system), and the neomammalian…
- trochlear noun A trochlear muscle or nerve.
- trochlear nerve noun Each of the fourth pair of cranial nerves that innervate the superior oblique muscle of the eye with motor fibers.
- tympanic nerve noun A branch of the glossopharyngeal nerve arising from the petrosal ganglion and entering the middle ear where it takes part in forming the…
- tympanic plexus noun A nerve plexus of the middle ear that is formed by the tympanic nerve and two or three filaments from the carotid plexus, sends fibers to…
- type 3 diabetes noun A proposed pathological linkage between Alzheimer's disease and certain features of type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
- uncus noun Specifically, the hooked end of the parahippocampal gyrus of the temporal lobe.
- vagus noun Ellipsis of vagus nerve.
- vagus nerve noun Either of the tenth pair of cranial nerves which extend from the medulla oblongata down into the abdomen. Branches of these important…
- vection noun The illusion of self-motion.
- ventral adj On the lower side of the brain.
- ventral striatum noun The forward part of the corpus striatum, made up of four separate parts, two per hemisphere: the nucleus accumbens and the olfactory…
- ventral tegmentum noun A part of the midbrain, close to the substantia nigra and the red nucleus, that contains dopamine and serotonin.
- ventricle noun One of four fluid-filled cavities in the brain, that are continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord.
- vestibular ganglion noun A sensory ganglion in the trunk of the vestibular nerve in the internal auditory canal that contains cell bodies supplying nerve fibers…
- vestibular nerve noun A branch of the vestibulocochlear nerve that consists of bipolar neurons with cell bodies collected in the vestibular ganglion, with…
- vestibular nucleus noun Any of four nuclei in the medulla oblongata on each side of the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain in which fibers of the…
- vestibulocochlear nerve noun Each of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, transmitting sound and equilibrium (balance) information from the organs of hearing and balance…
- zebrin noun Any of the molecules expressed by subsets of Purkinje cells that reveal the underlying zone-and-stripe architecture of the cerebellum.
- zoanthroprosopometamorphopsia noun A rare neurological condition, a variant of prosopometamorphopsia, where a person perceives human faces as transforming into animal faces.
- zombie system noun A neurological system that functions without conscious direction.
- zygomatic nerve noun A branch of the maxillary nerve that divides into a facial branch supplying the skin of the prominent part of the cheek and a temporal…