Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

reticular formation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English

Syllables: retic-u-lar -for-ma-tion
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

6

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Part of the brain that is involved in actions such as awaking/sleeping cycle, and filtering incoming stimuli to discriminate irrelevant background stimuli.

Inflected Forms

reticular formations (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

spinoreticular spinoreticulocerebellar

Synonyms

rf

Questions

What does reticular formation mean?: Part of the brain that is involved in actions such as awaking/sleeping cycle, and filtering incoming stimuli to discriminate irrelevant background stimuli.

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