lateral geniculate body
the group of neurons that serve as the primary processor of visual information received from the retina via the optic tract and send processed information to the visual cortex of the occipital lobe [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 ]
Term info
lateral geniculate body
- corpus geniculatum laterales
- lateral geniculate complex
- lateral geniculate nucleus
- nucleus geniculatus lateralis
- BTO:0004366
- BTO:0004367
- EMAPA:35478
- http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu/centraldirectory.aspx?ID=352 (BIRNLEX:1662)
- http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu/centraldirectory.aspx?ID=352
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_geniculate_body
- http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0086526
- http://www.snomedbrowser.com/Codes/Details/362377006
- MA:0000869
- BAMS:C.gl.
- BAMS:LG
- BIRNLEX:1662
- DHBA:10429
- EFO:0001988
- EV:0100219
- FMA:62209
- NCIT:C32556
- PBA:128013070
- UMLS:C0086526 (BIRNLEX:1662)
- UMLS:C0086526 (ncithesaurus:External_Geniculate_Body)
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim
BTO has distinct classes for body and nucleus, but other sources treat as identical
uberon
corpus geniculatus lateralis, nucleus corporis geniculati lateralis, LGB, external geniculate body, corpus geniculatum laterale, corpus geniculatum externum
UBERON:0001926
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_117569
Term relations
- nucleus of dorsal thalamus
- part of some metathalamus
- contributes to morphology of some dorsal plus ventral thalamus