restiform body

[ res-tuh-fawrm ]

nounAnatomy.
  1. a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.

Origin of restiform body

1
1825–35; restiform<New Latin restiformis, equivalent to Latin resti-, combining form of restis rope + -formis-form

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How to use restiform body in a sentence

  • Exophthalmia in animals born of parents in which an injury to the restiform body had produced that protrusion of the eyeball.