1899 Syd. Soc. Lex. ,*Thalamocœle, cavity of thalamencephalon. The thalamic cœlia, or third ventricle.
1902 D. J. Cunningham Text-bk. Anat. 504Flechsig divides the *thalamo-cortical fibres of ordinary sensation into three sensory systems.
1954 Gray's Anat. (ed. 31) 994The wealth of thalamo-cortical and cortico-thalamic connexions indicate a very close functional relationship between the two.
1970 Jrnl. Physiol. CCX. 15pThe afferent thalamo-cortical pathways to the visual cortex of the cat and monkey have been studied.
1899 Syd. Soc. Lex. ,*Thalamocrural.
1902 D. J. Cunningham Text-bk. Anat. 540Numerous fibres from the optic thalamus pass into the anterior limb of the internal capsule and enter both the caudate and the lenticular nuclei. These may be termed the *thalamo-striate fibres.
1968 Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. I. xxiv. 73/1The thalamostriate vein passes forwards between the caudate nucleus and thalamus draining both.
1948 Time 21 June 76/2 Last week they announced first results of their new operation, called *thalamotomy.
1955 Sci. NewsLet. 11 June 381/1The studies were made on 30 patients who underwent a special brain operation called thalamotomy. In this operation the cutting is done on part of the thalamus, the structure in the brain that serves as the main relay center for feelings of heat, cold, pain and the like to the thinking part of the brain.
1973 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Dec. 666/1The movements can be abolished only with thalamotomy.
1977 J. N. Walton Brain's Diseases Nervous System (ed. 8) xi. 595The operations of pallidectomy and ventrolateral thalamotomy.
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