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Corpus callosum

noun
1.
A broad transverse nerve tract connecting the two cerebral hemispheres.





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... a Rat or in a Rabbit, from what it is in a Marsupial—nor that the proportions of its parts are much changed, but an apparently new structure is found between the cerebral hemispheres, connecting them together, as what is called the 'great commissure' or 'corpus callosum.' The subject requires careful re-investigation, but if the currently received statements are correct, the appearance of the 'corpus callosum' in the placental mammals is the greatest and most sudden modification exhibited by the brain in the whole series of vertebrated animals—it is ...
— On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals • Thomas H. Huxley


Words linked to "Corpus callosum" :   prosencephalon, commissure, forebrain


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