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diencephalon

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diencephalon (dī'ənsĕf`əlŏn): see brain brain, the supervisory center of the nervous system in all vertebrates. It also serves as the site of emotions, memory, self-awareness, and thought.

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Histopathologic examination of sections from the cortex, hippocampus, thalamus, hypothalamus, midbrain, pons, medulla, and cerebellum showed polioencephalitis affecting predominantly the diencephalon and brainstem and involving varying degrees of neuronopathy, neuronal loss, astrocytosis, parenchymal and perivascular lymphocytic infiltration with CD45 immunopositivity, sparse macrophage activation, and axonal spheroid formation.
Fatal human infection with rabies-related Duvenhage virus, South ... by Swanepoel, Robert / Emerging Infectious Diseases
In general, most of this book is focused on matters dealing with somatomotor and somatosensory systems, whereas other areas that may be of less interest to therapists, such as the diencephalon, are barely mentioned.
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Indeed, this gene was first isolated from the diencephalon of X.
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