Search Result for "geniculate body":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. one of four small oval masses that protrude slightly from the underside of the thalamus and function as synaptic centers on the way to the cerebral cortex; 



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

geniculate body
    n 1: one of four small oval masses that protrude slightly from
         the underside of the thalamus and function as synaptic
         centers on the way to the cerebral cortex