See Also: ventral intermediate nucleus of thalamus(medicine)
ventral posterior intermediate nucleus of thalamus(medicine)
ventral nucleus of thalamus(medicine)
ventral lateral nucleus of thalamus(medicine)
ventral nucleus of trapezoid body(medicine)
ventral posterior nucleus of thalamus(medicine)
ventral anterior nucleus of thalamus(medicine)
ventral posterolateral nucleus of thalamus(medicine)
Antigone(encyclopedia)
Antigone(dictionary)

ventral intermediate nucleus of thalamus (medicine) and Antigone (sh)


ventral intermediate nucleus of thalamus (medicine)


ventral intermediate nucleus of thalamus


The composite middle third of the ventral nucleus receiving in its various parts distinctive projections from the contralateral half of the cerebellum (by way of the superior cerebellar peduncle) and the ipsilateral globus pallidus; nearly all parts of the nucleus projects to the motor cortex.

Synonym: nucleus ventralis intermedius thalami, nucleus ventralis lateralis, ventral lateral nucleus of thalamus.


Antigone (sh)




In Greek legend, the daughter born of the incestuous relationship between Oedipus and his mother, Jocasta.

After Oedipus had blinded himself in self-punishment, Antigone and her sister Ismene served as his guides, following him into exile. When he died, Antigone returned to Thebes, where her brothers Eteocles and Polyneices were at war. Both were killed, and Creon, the new king, declared that because Polyneices was a traitor, his corpse should remain unburied. Unwilling to let the body be defiled, Antigone buried him; when Creon condemned her to death, she hanged herself. Her story was dramatized by Sophocles and Euripides (in Euripides' version she escapes and joins her beloved, Haemon).