(a.) Bent abruptly at an angle, like the knee when bent; as, a geniculate stem; a geniculate ganglion; a geniculate twin crystal.
(v. t.) To form joints or knots on.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results obtained were compared with the data of electron microscopic study of the inferior geniculate body, as they are subcortical formations belonging to the same auditory system but differentiating in their functions.
(2) It is concluded that ACh exerts a direct, excitatory action on geniculate neurons.
(3) These tangential fibers are in part the preterminal arborizations of geniculocortical axons, since some of them have been shown to degenerate after geniculate lesions.
(4) While some neurophysiological changes can be observed at the level of the lateral geniculate nucleus they become more prominent as information reaches the visual cortex, where cells commonly receive neural excitation from both eyes and require the information to come from corresponding parts of the two retinas and that the stimulus should have appropriate orientation and direction of movement.
(5) Y axons, whether originating from the deviated or the nondeviated eye, have substantially smaller arbors and fewer boutons in the A-laminae of the lateral geniculate nucleus compared to Y axons in normal cats.
(6) The geniculate of both lesion groups contained fewer neurons in all laminae than did the nucleus of intact cats, but only the adult-lesioned cats showed a substantial increase in glial cell counts.
(7) The high-affinity uptake of L-glutamate, D-aspartate and GABA were examined in homogenates from the dorsal lateral geniculate body and the superior colliculus after removal of the right visual cortex of adult rats.
(8) After WGA-HRP injection into the vitreous cavity of one eye, terminal labeling was seen in the suprachiasmatic nucleus, dorsal and ventral lateral geniculate nuclei, pretectum and superficial layer of the superior colliculus.
(9) Macroscopial and microscopial analysis of development of the lateral geniculate bodies was performed in 32 human brains of persons of various age.
(10) Two subcortical generators were localized related to surface ABSP-one at the medial geniculate thalamic region (MG) related to SP and SN1 and V, VI, VII potentials, the other near the hippocampal region related to SN2.
(11) Our results suggest that the first stage is much more selective for orientation than are lateral geniculate nucleus cells, but that the first-stage orientation bandwidth is rather wide with some interaction occurring between perpendicular orientations.
(12) In this study the morphology of the lateral geniculate nucleus and occipital cortex in rats with methylazoxymethanol acetate (MAM Ac)-induced micrencephaly was examined.
(13) The results suggest that the degree of cytochrome oxidase activity in these regions of the visual cortex may be related to the strength and type of projection that they receive from the lateral geniculate nucleus.
(14) These data suggest that simple and complex cells analyze different aspects of a visual stimulus, and we provide a hypothesis which suggests that simple cells analyze input typically from one (or a few) geniculate neurons, while complex cells receive input from a larger region of geniculate neurons.
(15) Diffuse light, however, was as effective as patterned light in increasing ventral lateral geniculate nucleus activity and strongly suppressed SC activity to a level well below that produced by darkness.
(16) Individual axons leave the ventral peduncle and run dorsally in the transverse plane, entering the dorsal lateral geniculate complex from its ventral edge.
(17) A diabetes duration of 20 weeks causing bilateral cataracts induced a significant (p less than 0.05) reduction in rCBF in two structures in the visual system compared to the control group (visual cortex: 105 versus 129 ml 100 g-1 min-1; lateral geniculate body: 106 versus 128 ml 100 g-1 min-1) and in the pontine reticular nucleus (82 versus 128 ml 100 g min-1), whereas rDPC remained unchanged.
(18) It was found that in addition to the immediate decrease of retrograde labelling with HRP in the cortical projections from the deafferented A-laminae of the dorsal part of the lateral geniculate nucleus (Singer et al.
(19) For the purpose of comparison, we used the same stimulus to investigate mass potentials from the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) and the visual cortex.
(20) Potentials were evoked with bilaterally presented click stimuli and with electrical stimulation of the ventral and dorsal divisions of the medial geniculate body.
Genuflect
Definition:
(v. i.) To bend the knee, as in worship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indeed, UK Sport, now the subject of so much ministerial genuflection, was among the agencies earmarked for Francis Maude's "bonfire of the quangos" less than two years ago.
(2) Never mind that it muddies the debate (the Le Pen dynasty and the millionaire Nigel Farage somehow turn out to be the real victims in all this) and trivialises the very people to whom the quack is pretending to genuflect.
(3) Why bow your head to people who will simply bank the genuflection, and then turn on the head of a dime.
(4) Much as they are obliged to set aside a certain number of viewing hours for consideration of matters that pass for religious (to which the British are equally indifferent) they must genuflect before the altar of culture.
(5) Congregations genuflect, Black robes brag gilt epaulettes, Freedom's phantom's gone to heaven, Gay Pride's chained and in detention.
(6) How long before News Corp’s famous summer party is revived as a compulsory opportunity for political genuflection?
(7) There is nothing in our constitution that enjoins us to respect the head of state, or to genuflect before him.
(8) That’s why it was still up last week: not because of heritage (because that’s bunk), but because genuflecting to racists is good politics.
(9) There was Tony, on the banks of the river Jordan, satin robes rippling in the breeze, genuflecting to the most powerful media oligarch on the planet.
(10) Why genuinely powerful people genuflect to people who won't respect them for genuflecting?
(11) But private genuflection is hardly appropriate for a job at the BBC , which we feel we own because we're all obliged to pay for it.
(12) Only one sentence genuflected towards the moral good of the rich and able paying a “fair” share towards our “public services and safety nets”: the real enemy of morality was the principle of taxation itself.
(13) It starts out as a religious hymn, then mutates into something Sex Pistols-esque, the women kneeling, genuflecting, crossing themselves, jumping up and down and, after a few seconds, being intercepted by security guards and led away.
(14) Received wisdom still holds that you can’t run for president as a Republican without genuflecting to the evangelical base.
(15) Watching footage of the event, it is clear which way the deference is flowing: while the Beatles are relaxed and joshing, Wilson seems tense and genuflective.
(16) Any hope that Bowie the icon might induce genuflection among the referendum don't-knows was instantly dashed on Twitter.
(17) Since then, capturing the "centre ground" has often meant genuflecting to an incorrigibly reactionary "middle".
(18) He genuflected to the concept of moderation, refrained from naming any country that Iran considered averse to its interests, and the word "enemy" was missing altogether.
(19) Times Square : where jingoists go to cheer the deaths of terrorists, tourists go to genuflect at the might of American advertising and where, last night, an even broader demographic turned out to watch the 66th Tony awards, aka "Broadway's big night" or, as host Neil Patrick Harris termed it, "50 shades of gay" .
(20) So why do so many people still genuflect in its direction?