fibres | |
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tract | borrowed from Latin tractus, the perfect passive participle of trahō. = pull |
fasciculus | Diminutive of fascis (“bundle”) |
fibre | from Latin fibra. |
filum | From Latin fīlum (“thread”). |
commisure | From con- + mittō (“send”) |
chiasm | from Ancient Greek χιασμός (khiasmos crossing, diagonal arrangement) |
decussation | Ancient Greek δέκα (déka) |
peduncle | From Late Latin pedunculus, from pedis, genitive of pēs (“foot”) |
lamina | from Latin lāmina (“a thin piece of metal, wood, marble; a plate, leaf, layer”) |
arcuate | Perfect passive participle of arcuō, from arcus (“bow”) |
association | From ad- + sociō (“unite together; associate”) |
stria | Borrowed from Latin stria (“furrow”) |
mossy | Latin muscus (“moss”) |
sympathetic | from Ancient Greek σῠμπᾰ́θειᾰ (sumpátheia, “fellow feeling”), |
synapse | from Ancient Greek σύναψις (súnapsis, “conjunction”), from συνάπτω (sunáptō, “to clasp”). |
net – | |
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trabeculae | From Latin trabēcula (“small beam”), diminutive of trabs (“beam, timber”) |
reticulum | From rēte (“net, snare”) + -culum (diminutive suffix). |
plexus | Borrowed from Latin plexus (“a twining, plaiting, braid”). |
arachnoid | from ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χνη (arákhnē, “spider web”) + -ο- (-o-) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-oid, -like”). |
mesh | Akin to Old High German māsca (“mesh”) |
trunk | |
wall | |
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septum | from Latin sēptum (“enclosure, wall, fence”) |
elevation- | |
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tubercle | From tuber (“hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence”) |
amygdala | from Latin amygdala (“almond”), |
nucleus | from Latin nucleus (“kernel, core”), a diminutive of nux (“nut”) |
ganglion | from Ancient Greek γᾰγγλῐ́ον (ganglíon, “encysted tumour on a tendon or aponeurosis”) |
bulb | from Latin bulbus (“bulb, onion”), |
emboliform | From Ancient Greek ἔμβολος (émbolos, “peg, stopper”) + -form, from ἐμβάλλω (embállō, “to lay or put in”) + -ος (-os, nominal suffix) |
globose | From Latin globosus (“round as a ball, spherical, globular”) |
flocculus | Borrowed from Latin floccus.- wool |
corpus | Borrowed from Latin corpus (“body”). |
ganglion | Borrowed from Ancient Greek γᾰγγλῐ́ον (ganglíon, “encysted tumour on a tendon or aponeurosis”) |
globus | Cognate with Latin glaeba, glomus, Sanskrit ग्लुन्थ (gluntha, “lump”) |
olivary | Ancient Greek ἐλαία (elaía)) - olive |
pallidus | From palleō + -idus. - pale |
spinal | from spīna (“a prickle, spine”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix) |
dentate | From dēns (“tooth”) + -ātus. |
end- | |
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terminale | from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ (“boundary”) |
cauda | Vulgar Latin cōda (the source of all other Romance forms) |
cover– | |
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tela | Borrowed from Latin tēla (“web”) |
tentorium | from Latin tentorium, literally ‘tent’. |
choroid | from χόριον (khórion, “membrane that encloses the fetus in the womb, afterbirth”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like”). |
cortex | From Latin cortex (“cork, bark”). |
ependyma | from ἐπι- (epi-, “on, over”) + ἐνδύνω (endúnō, “I put on (clothes)”). |
mater | From Latin māter (“mother”), |
meninges | from Ancient Greek μῆνῐγξ (mêninx, “membrane of the eye; membrane enclosing the brain; eardrum”). |
matter | from Latin materia (“matter, stuff, material”), from mater (“mother”). |
branch | |
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limb | from Proto-Germanic *limuz (“branch, limb”). |
limbic | from Proto-Germanic *limuz (“branch, limb”). |
radiata , radiation | radiare (“to radiate, furnish with spokes |
ramus | from Latin rāmus (“branch”). |
gracile | Latin gracilis (“slender, slim, thin |
column | a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit” |
axon | From Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, “axis”). |
raphe | from Ancient Greek ῥᾰφή (rhaphḗ, “seam; suture”). |
accumbens | accumbō (“lie down somewhere; recline at table”) |
autonomic | from αὐτο- (auto-, “self”) + νόμος (nómos, “usage, custom; law, ordinance”) |
calcarine | From the Latin (fornāx) calcāria (“(furnace) designed for burning lime”) |
callosum | From callum (“hardened skin”) + -ōsus. |
basal | from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis). |
caudate | From the Medieval Latin caudātus, from the Classical Latin cauda (“tail”). |
sulcus | Borrowed from Latin sulcus (“a furrow made by a plow”) |
cell body | |
cerebellum | From cerebrum (“a brain”) + -lus (diminutive nominal suffix). |
cerebrum | Ancient Greek κᾰ́ρᾱ (kárā, “a head, face”). |
conus | from Latin conus (“cone, wedge, peak”) |
cord | Ancient Greek χορδά (khordá, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”) |
cuneate | From cuneus (“wedge”) |
dendrites | Ancient Greek δένδρον (déndron, “tree”). |
equina | From Latin equīnus. , cognate with Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos |
falx | From Latin falx (“sickle”) |
funiculus | From Latin funiculus, diminutive of funis (“rope, cord”) |
genu | Borrowed from Latin genu (“knee”). |
glia | γλοιός (gloiós, “a glutinous substance, gum”) |
granulations | Borrowed from Late Latin granulum, diminutive of Latin granum (“grain”) |
gyrus | From Latin gȳrus (“circle”), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros). |
hippocampus | from ῐ̔́ππος (híppos, “horse”) + κάμπος (kámpos, “sea-monster”). |
horn | Latin cornū, Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras) |
lentiform | From lent-, stem of Latin lens + -iform. , Ancient Greek λάθυρος (láthuros). |
medulla | Borrowed from Latin medulla (“pith, marrow”), perhaps from medius (“middle”) |
nerve | from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “nerve”). Doublet of nerve and sinew. |
neuron | from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “nerve”). Doublet of nerve and sinew. |
phrenic | from Ancient Greek φρήν (phrḗn, “diaphragm”). |
pons | Borrowed from Latin pōns (“bridge”). Doublet of Pontus. |
purkinje | |
reflex | From Late Latin reflexus, past participle of reflectere (“to bend back”) |
root | cognate with wort, radish, and radix. |
midbrain | |
rhombencephalon | From rhomb + encephalon. , From ῥέμβω (rhémbō, “I turn”). |
metencephalon | meta- + encephalon |
encephalon | from ἐν (en, “in”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”). |
myelencephalon | myelo- + encephalon , From Ancient Greek μυελός (muelós, “marrow”). |
vestibular | from Latin vestibulum (“a forecourt, entrance court; an entrance”). |