midbrain

English

Etymology

From mid- +‎ brain.

Noun

midbrain (plural midbrains)

1. (neuroanatomy) A part of the brain located rostral to the pons and caudal to the thalamus and the basal ganglia, composed of the tectum (dorsal portion) and the tegmentum (ventral portion).
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 226:

     When the instinctive and subconscious world of the snake is confronted in initiation, the vital force of the snake rises and floods the second brain, the midbrain, the limbic ring.

Synonyms

• mesencephalon

Meronyms

• tectum
• tegmentum

Holonyms

• brain stem

Translations

part of brain

• Azerbaijani: orta beyin
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中腦／中脑 (zh) (zhōngnǎo)

• Czech: střední mozek m
• Danish: mesencephalon, midthjernen
• Dutch: mesencephalon, middenhersen
• Estonian: keskaju
• Finnish: keskiaivot (fi)
• French: mésencéphale (fr) m
• German: Mittelhirn (de)
• Greek: μεσεγκέφαλος m (mesegkéfalos)
• Hindi: मध्यमस्तिष्क (madhyamastiṣk)
• Indonesian: otak tengah
• Irish: lárinchinn f
• Italian: mesemcefalo m
• Japanese: 中脳 (ja) (chūnō)
• Javanese: ꦲꦸꦠꦏ꧀ꦠꦺꦔꦃ (utak tengah)
• Kabuverdianu:

  Badiu: mezenséfalu m

  São Vicente: mezenséfalo m

• Korean: 중간뇌(中間腦) (junggannoe)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: demaxê naverast m

• Latin: mesencephalon
• Lithuanian: vidurinės smegenys
• Macedonian: среден мозок (sreden mozok)
• Malay: otak tengah
• Norwegian: mesencephalon
• Polish: śródmózgowie n
• Portuguese: mesencéfalo
• Russian: сре́дний мозг (srédnij mozg)
• Slovak: stredný mozog
• Spanish: mesencéfalo
• Swedish: mesencephalon, mitthjärnan (sv)
• Tagalog: gitnangutak
• Vietnamese: não giữa

See also

• afterbrain
• forebrain
• hindbrain