Usually means: Brain's relay center for information.
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  1. thalamus: Merriam-Webster
  2. thalamus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. thalamus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. thalamus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. thalamus: Wiktionary
  9. thalamus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  16. thalamus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  1. thalamus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (thalamus)

noun:  (neuroanatomy) Either of two large, ovoid structures of grey matter within the forebrain that relay sensory impulses to the cerebral cortex.
noun:  (botany) The receptacle of a flower; a torus.
noun:  A thallus.
noun:  An inner room or nuptial chamber.

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