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locus ceruleus (medicine)


locus ceruleus


A shallow depression, of a blue colour in the fresh brain, lying laterally in the most rostral portion of the rhomboidal fossa near the cerebral aqueduct; it lies near the lateral wall of the fourth ventricle and consists of about 20,000 melanin-pigmented neuronal cell bodies whose norepinephrine-containing axons have a remarkably wide distribution in the cerebellum as well as in the hypothalamus and cerebral cortex.

Synonym: substantia ferruginea, locus cinereus, locus ferrugineus.


convict 1, verb (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Latin; Origin: , past participle of convincere; CONVINCE]
to prove or officially announce that someone is guilty of a crime after a trial in a law court
-opposite acquit acquit convict sb of sth
::She was convicted of shoplifting.
convict sb on sth
::He was convicted on fraud charges .
::a convicted murderer