See Also: Pretectal area(health)
pretectal area(medicine)
pretectal nucleus(medicine)
pretectal region(medicine)
Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area(tourism)
Bay Area(dictionary)
Area(medicine)
area(dictionary)
Little's area(medicine)
out-of-area(dictionary)

Kenya (iou) and pretectal area (medicine)


Kenya (iou)



Kenya noun. M20.
[See below.]
Used attrib. to designate people or things from or associated with Kenya, a country in E. Africa.
Kenya Asian = Kenyan Asian s.v. KENYAN adjective. Kenya coffee a mild coffee grown in Kenya.

pretectal area (medicine)


pretectal area


A narrow, transversally oriented rostral zone of the mesencephalic tectum, bounded caudally by the superior colliculus, rostrally by the habenular trigone, and laterally by the pulvinar thalami; the area contains several nuclei that receive fibres from the optic tract; it has bilateral efferent connections with the Edinger-Westphal nucleus of the oculomotor nuclear complex by way of which it mediates the pupillary light reflex.

Synonym: pretectal region, pretectum.