Usually means: Central brain region, regulates movement.
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  1. midbrain: Merriam-Webster
  2. midbrain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. midbrain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. midbrain: Collins English Dictionary
  5. midbrain: Vocabulary.com
  6. midbrain: Wordnik
  7. midbrain: Wiktionary
  8. midbrain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. midbrain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. midbrain: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. midbrain: Dictionary.com
  12. Midbrain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Midbrain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. midbrain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. midbrain: Rhymezone
  16. Midbrain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. midbrain: FreeDictionary.org
  18. midbrain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. midbrain: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. midbrain: Legal dictionary

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  1. midbrain: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. midbrain: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. Multiple Sclerosis Encyclopaedia (No longer online)
  5. midbrain: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (midbrain)

noun:  (neuroanatomy) A part of the brain located rostral to the pons and caudal to the thalamus and the basal ganglia, composed of the tectum (dorsal portion) and the tegmentum (ventral portion).

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