THALAMUS
- a part of the brain [n THALAMI] : THALAMIC [adj]
- the part of the brain that transmits and integrates sensory impulses
- the largest subdivision of the diencephalon that consists chiefly of an ovoid mass of nuclei in each lateral wall of the third ventricle and serves chiefly to relay impulses and especially sensory impulses to and from the cerebral cortex see brain illustration