Terminology Service for NFDI4Health

lateral geniculate body

Go to external page http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001926


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

Label

lateral geniculate body

Synonyms
  • corpus geniculatum laterales
  • lateral geniculate complex
  • lateral geniculate nucleus
  • nucleus geniculatus lateralis
database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim

latin term
nucleus corporis geniculati lateralis [ NeuroNames : 352 ]

latin term
corpus geniculatus lateralis [ NeuroNames : 352 ]

abbreviation
LGN [ BIRNLEX : 1662 NIFSTD : NeuroNames_abbrevSource ]

external ontology notes

BTO has distinct classes for body and nucleus, but other sources treat as identical

has related synonym

corpus geniculatus lateralis, nucleus corporis geniculati lateralis, LGB, external geniculate body, corpus geniculatum laterale, corpus geniculatum externum

id

UBERON:0001926

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_117569