restiform body

American  

[res-tuh-fawrm] / ˈrɛs təˌfɔrm /

noun

Anatomy.

1. a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.

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Etymology

Origin of restiform body

1825–35; restiform < New Latin restiformis, equivalent to Latin resti-, combining form of restis rope + -formis -form

Example Sentences

Exophthalmia in animals born of parents in which an injury to the restiform body had produced that protrusion of the eyeball....

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John

Haematoma and dry gangrene of the ears in animals born of parents in which these ear-alterations had been caused by an injury to the restiform body near the nib of the calamus. 7th.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John

Forty guinea-pigs in which one or both eyes showed more or less morbid change were descended from three individuals in which one eye had become diseased in consequence of transverse section of the restiform body.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.

Lesions of the same sciatic nerve, of the restiform body, etc., provoked various troubles in the guinea-pig which its progeny inherited sometimes in a quite different form: exophthalmia, loss of toes, etc.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

I have fully corroborated the statement that injury to a particular spot of the restiform body is quickly followed by a marked protrusion of the eyeball on the same side.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John