🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

杏仁核

Pronunciation / Transliteration: xìng rén hé

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Amygdala/əˈmɪɡ.də.lə/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"杏仁核是处理情绪反应的关键脑区。"

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As noun
  1. 1

    A roughly almond-shaped mass of gray matter inside each cerebral hemisphere, involved with the experiencing of emotions, particularly fear and aggression.

    "The brain's amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fearful and threatening stimuli."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Modern Latin scientific usage, stemming from the Ancient Greek amygdalē (ἀμυγδαλή), meaning 'almond', due to the almond-like shape of this subcortical brain structure. The term was coined in anatomical nomenclature in the 19th century to describe the cluster of nuclei located deep within the temporal lobes of the vertebrate brain.

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