| 单词 | mushroom body |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmushroom body mushroom body n. [after German pilzhutförmiger Körper (M. J. Dietl 1876, in Zeitschr. f. wissensch. Zool. 27 495)] Entomology either of a pair of structures in the protocerebrum of the insect brain, each consisting of a cap of neuropil and a two- or three-lobed stalk, which are particularly well developed in social insects. ΚΠ 1879 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 19 342 As regards the general structure of the so-called mushroom-body and its stem, Leydig makes little advance on what was done by Dujardin. 1914 Jrnl. Compar. Neurol. 24 285 These two large masses of the posterior roots of the mushroom body have been frequently termed ‘ocellar glomeruli’ in the literature of insect brains. 1978 Sci. Amer. July 85/1 Histologists of the 19th century observed that mushroom bodies are particularly prominent in social insects and inferred that the highest brain functions (learning, memory and complex social behaviour) are probably located there. < as lemmas |
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