mushroom body
nounEtymology
From mushroom + body, after German pilzhutförmiger Körper.
- derived from pilzhutförmiger Körper
Definitions
Either of a pair of structures in the brains of insects and some other arthropods thought…
Either of a pair of structures in the brains of insects and some other arthropods thought to be involved in learning and memory.
- In fruit flies the cyclic AMP system seems to be especially active in brain regions called mushroom bodies, toadstool-shaped extrusions of neurons in the fruit fly brain.
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