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What is a thalamus?

What is a thalamus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) Either of two large, ovoid structures of grey matter within the forebrain that relay sensory impulses to the cerebral cortex.
  2. (botany) The receptacle of a flower; a torus.
  3. A thallus.
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Another mass of grey matter behind the corpus striatum is the thalamus, which lies in the walls of the third ventricle.
The lateroepiphysial or epithalamic veins emerge from the nervous tissue of the habenular trigone situated on the medial side of the thalamus.
Especially in these cases, MRI findings with high signal intensity in the thalamus and mammillary bodies can be especially important.
Peripheral injury results in anatomic and physiologic changes within the dorsal horn, sensory thalamus and cerebral cortex.
Parts of the thalamus, and the frontal lobes of the cerebral cortex that are important in controlling mood, also connect to the hypothalamus.
The equivalent third step within a basin-shaped and acarpous thalamus brings increase of the tissues of the basin as a whole.

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