hypothalamus

See also: Hypothalamus

English

Etymology

hypo- +‎ thalamus

Noun

hypothalamus (plural hypothalami or hypothalamuses)

1. (anatomy) A region of the forebrain located below the thalamus, forming the basal portion of the diencephalon, and functioning to regulate body temperature, some metabolic processes and governing the autonomic nervous system.
   • 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 217:

     To avoid catastrophe, the brain has its trusty control centre, the hypothalamus, which tells the body to cool itself by sweating or to warm itself by shivering.

Derived terms

• hypothalamic
• hypothalamo-

Translations

a region of the brain, below the thalamus

• Albanian: hipotalamusi m
• Arabic: الهايبوثلاموس‎ m (alhaybuthlamus)
• Armenian: հիպոթալամուս (hy) (hipotʿalamus)
• Asturian: hipotálamu m
• Azerbaijani: hipotalamus
• Basque: hipotalamo
• Belarusian: гіпаталамус m (hipatalamus)
• Bengali: হাইপোথ্যালামাস (bn) (haipotthalamaś)
• Bulgarian: хипоталамус m (hipotalamus)
• Catalan: hipotàlem m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 下丘腦 (haa⁶ jau¹ nou⁵)

  Mandarin: 下丘腦, 下丘脑 (xiàqiūnǎo)

• Czech: hypothalamus m
• Dhivehi: ހައިޕޯތަލަމަސް‎ (haipōtalamas)
• Dutch: hypothalamus (nl) m
• Esperanto: hipotalamo
• Finnish: hypotalamus (fi)
• French: hypothalamus (fr) m
• Galician: hipotálamo m
• Georgian: ჰიპოთალამუსი (hiṗotalamusi)
• German: Hypothalamus (de) m
• Greek: υποθάλαμος (el) m (ypothálamos)
• Haitian Creole: ipotalamis
• Hebrew: הִיפּוֹתָלָמוּס‎ (he) m
• Hindi: अधश्चेतक (adhaścetak)
• Hungarian: hipotalamusz (hu)
• Icelandic: undirstúka f, heiladyngjubotn m
• Indonesian: hipotalamus
• Irish: hipeatalamas m
• Italian: ipotalamo (it) m
• Japanese: 視床下部 (ししょうかぶ, shishōkabu)
• Javanese: hipotalamus
• Korean: 시상하부(視床下部) (sisanghabu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hîpotalamus m

• Kyrgyz: гипоталамус (ky) (gipotalamus)
• Latvian: hipotalāms m
• Lithuanian: pagumburis m
• Macedonian: хипоталамус m (hipotalamus)
• Malay: hipotalamus
• Occitan: ipotalam m
• Persian: هیپوتالاموس‎ (fa) (hipotâlâmus)
• Polish: podwzgórze n
• Portuguese: hipotálamo m
• Punjabi: ਹਿਪੋਥੈਲੇਮਸ m (hipothailemas)
• Romanian: hipotalamus (ro) n
• Russian: гипотала́мус (ru) m (gipotalámus)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хипота̀ламус m

  Roman: hipotàlamus (sh) m

• Slovak: podlôžko n
• Slovene: hipotalamus m
• Spanish: hipotálamo (es) m
• Sundanese: hipotalamus
• Swedish: hypotalamus (sv)
• Tamil: ஐப்போத்தலாமசு (aippōttalāmacu)
• Thai: ไฮโปทาลามัส (hai bpoh taa laa mát)
• Turkish: hipotalamus (tr)
• Ukrainian: гіпоталамус m (hipotalamus)
• Vietnamese: vùng dưới đồi
• Welsh: hypothalamws m

See also

Similar-looking but unrelated terms, not to be confused with the above

• hippopotamus
• hypotenuse

 

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Czech

Alternative forms

• hypotalamus m

Noun

hypothalamus m

1. (anatomy) hypothalamus

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French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /i.pɔ.ta.la.mys/

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Noun

hypothalamus m (plural hypothalamus)

1. (anatomy) hypothalamus

Further reading

• “hypothalamus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.