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Medical Term:

posterior hypothalamic nucleus

 

Definition: a large, periventricular hypothalamic nucleus located dorsal to the mammillary body, continuous with the central gray substance of the mesencephalon.

Synonym(s): nucleus posterior hypothalamiTA

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