Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ventral tegmentum

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.41 in modern English

Syllables: ven-tral tegmen-tum
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A part of the midbrain, close to the substantia nigra and the red nucleus, that contains dopamine and serotonin.

noun

The part of the mesencephalon that projects to the nucleus accumbens via the mesolimbic pathway and to the cortex via the mesocortical pathway

Inflected Forms

ventral tegmental area (canonical)

Phrases

midbrain tegmentum

Frequently Paired Words

midbrain tegmentum

Questions

What does ventral tegmentum mean?: A part of the midbrain, close to the substantia nigra and the red nucleus, that contains dopamine and serotonin.

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