hypothalamus

See also: Hypothalamus

English

Etymology

hypo- +‎ thalamus

Noun

hypothalamus (plural hypothalami)

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.

Derived terms

• hypothalamic

Translations

a region of the brain, below the thalamus

• Bengali: হাইপোথ্যালামাস (haipothjalamas)
• Catalan: hipotàlem m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 下丘腦, 下丘脑 (xiàqiūnǎo)

• Czech: hypothalamus m
• Dutch: hypothalamus m
• German: Hypothalamus (de) m
• Greek: υποθάλαμος (el) m (ypothálamos)
• Hungarian: hipotalamusz
• Icelandic: undirstúka f, heiladyngjubotn m
• Irish: hipeatalamas m

• Italian: ipotalamo (it) m
• Japanese: 視床下部 (ししょうかぶ, shishōkabu)
• Korean: 시상하부 (sisanghabu) (視床下部)
• Persian: هیپوتالاموس‏‎ (fa) (hipotâlâmus)
• Polish: podwzgórze n
• Portuguese: hipotálamo m
• Russian: гипотала́мус (ru) m (gipotalámus), подбуго́рье n (podbugórʹje)
• Spanish: hipotálamo (es) m
• Swedish: hypotalamus (sv)
• Turkish: hipotalamus (tr)

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Czech

Alternative forms

• hypotalamus m

Noun

hypothalamus m

1. (anatomy) hypothalamus

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French

Noun

hypothalamus m (plural hypothalamus)

1. (anatomy) hypothalamus

Further reading

• “hypothalamus” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).