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

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restiform body

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 George John Romanes

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 Arthur Mitchell

The exact spot in question in the restiform body is as far forwards as it is possible to reach, and as far down in depth as is compatible with not producing rotatory movements. 7th.

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

Hæmatoma 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.

From Essays on Life, Art and Science by Samuel Butler

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.

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