See Also: acoustic lemniscus(medicine)
lemniscus(medicine)
lemniscus(dictionary)
lemniscus lateralis(medicine)
auditory lemniscus(medicine)
gustatory lemniscus(medicine)
lateral lemniscus(medicine)
lemniscus medialis(medicine)
lemniscus spinalis(medicine)
lemniscus trigeminalis(medicine)

loyalty (oh) and acoustic lemniscus (medicine)


loyalty (oh)



[U] the quality of remaining faithful to your friends, principles, country etc
loyalty to/towards
::Elizabeth understood her husband's loyalty to his sister.
[C usually plural] a feeling of support for someone or something
local/Regional/tribal/family etc loyalty/loyalties
::In the rural areas, family and tribal loyalties continue to be important.
::the agony of divided loyalties (=loyalty to two different or opposing people) for the children in a Divorce

acoustic lemniscus (medicine)


acoustic lemniscus -->
lateral lemniscus


A bundle of ascending fibres that originate from the cochlear and auditory relay nuclei of the rhombencephalon, enter the trapezoid body, a transverse fibre stratum in which about half their number decussate, and from here turn rostrally along the lateral side of the spinothalamic tract; in the midbrain, it arches dorsally and enters the inferior colliculus in which all of its fibres terminate; the auditory pathway is transsynaptically extended from here by the brachium of the inferior colliculus to the medial geniculate body of the thalamus, from which in turn the auditory radiation leads to the auditory cortex; intercalated in the trapezoid body and along the ascending trajectory of the lemniscus are several cell groups in which part of the fibres synapse.

Synonym: lemniscus lateralis, acoustic lemniscus, auditory lemniscus, auditory tract, lateral fillet.