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-agogue (medicine) and nucleus habenulae (medicine)


-agogue (medicine)


-agogue


Leading, promoting, stimulating; a promoter or stimulant of.

Origin: G. Agogos, leading forth, fr. Ago, to lead.


nucleus habenulae (medicine)


nucleus habenulae -->
habenular nucleus


The gray matter of the habenula, composed of a small-celled medial and a larger-celled lateral habenular nucleus; both nuclei receive fibres from basal forebrain regions (septum, basal nucleus, lateral preoptic nucleus); the lateral habenular nucleus receives an additional projection from the medial segment of the globus pallidus. Both nuclei project by way of the retroflex fasciculus to the interpeduncular nucleus and a medial zone of the midbrain tegmentum.

Synonym: nucleus habenulae, ganglion habenulae.