Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Bent abruptly, as a knee.
- adjective Having kneelike joints; able to bend at an abrupt angle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Kneed; having a protuberance like a knee or an elbow; in botany, having joints like the knee a little bent: as, a geniculate stem or peduncle.
- To form joints or knots in.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bent abruptly at an angle, like the knee when bent
- transitive verb rare To form joints or knots on.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Bent abruptly, with the structure of a knee.
- adjective Having kneelike joints; able to bend at an abrupt angle.
- verb obsolete, rare, transitive To form joints or knots on.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective bent at a sharp angle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In 1999, researchers from Berkley and Harvard inserted electrodes into the brains of anesthetized cats that monitored the activity of 177 neurons located in the lateral geniculate nucleus, a key visual processing center.
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This signal is then processed through four other layers of the retina and passes through the optic nerve to the lateral geniculate nucleus.
Sugar and Saline 2009
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It is basically shingles of the geniculate ganglion, and it explains every single one of the patient's symptoms!
Archive 2008-08-01 1 Dinosaur 2008
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By suturing shut one of a kitten's eyes at various stages of development and for various periods of time, Hubel and Wiesel (1970) showed that certain cortical and thalamic areas supporting binocular vision (specifically, ocular dominance columns and cells in the lateral geniculate body) will not develop normally unless kittens receive patterned visual stimulation during the 4th to 12th weeks of life.
Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008
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It is basically shingles of the geniculate ganglion, and it explains every single one of the patient's symptoms!
Clinical Case: Taste Disturbance, Otitis Externa and Other Symptoms (Part 2) 1 Dinosaur 2008
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So far, the most compelling evidence she provides concerns the relationship between orbit convergence (movement of the eyes from the sides to the front of the face) and the activity of parvocellular and magnocellular neurons in the LGN (lateral geniculate nucleus) of the primate thalamus.
Archive 2006-07-01 Field Notes 2006
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So far, the most compelling evidence she provides concerns the relationship between orbit convergence (movement of the eyes from the sides to the front of the face) and the activity of parvocellular and magnocellular neurons in the LGN (lateral geniculate nucleus) of the primate thalamus.
Snakes in Primate Vision Field Notes 2006
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Cells in the retina, lateral geniculate body (a relay station in the brain) and in the visual cortex respond mainly to edges (step changes in luminance) but not to homogeneous surface colours; so a line drawing or cartoon stimulates these cells as effectively as a ‘half tone’ photograph.
The Cognitive Science of Art: Ramachandran's 10 Principles of Art, Principles 1-3 Chris 2005
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The clerk Flinx encountered was straight of body but mentally geniculate from a quarter century of answering the same inane questions.
Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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The clerk Flinx encountered was straight of body but mentally geniculate from a quarter century of answering the same inane questions.
Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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