hypothalamic

English

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Adjective

hypothalamic (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the hypothalamus.
   • 1999 March 20, Natalie Angiers, The Guardian:

     Thus, in brain studies that purport to find the origins of sexual orientation, gay men are said to have hypothalamic nuclei that are smaller than a straight man’s and closer in size to a woman’s, and thus they are attracted to men.

Derived terms

• corticohypothalamic
• extrahypothalamic
• geniculohypothalamic
• hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal
• hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
• hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical
• intrahypothalamic
• mesohypothalamic
• nonhypothalamic
• perihypothalamic
• retinohypothalamic
• septohypothalamic

Translations

pertaining to the hypothalamus

Catalan: hipotalàmic Chinese: Mandarin: 下丘腦的 / 下丘脑的 (zh) (xiàqiūnǎode) French: hypothalamique Greek: υποθαλάμιος (el) (ypothalámios), υποθαλαμικός (el) (ypothalamikós) Hungarian: hipotalamikus Icelandic: (please verify) sem varðar undirstúku, (please verify) sem varðar heiladyngjubotn, (please verify) undirstúku- , (please verify) heiladyngjubotns- Italian: ipotalamico Portuguese: hipotalâmico Spanish: hipotalámico