mushroom body
English
Etymology
From mushroom + body, after German pilzhutförmiger Körper.
Noun
mushroom body (plural mushroom bodies)
- (entomology) Either of a pair of structures in the brains of insects and some other arthropods thought to be involved in learning and memory.
- 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 226:
- In fruit flies the cyclic AMP system seems to be especially active in brain regions called mushroom bodies, toadstool-shaped extrusions of neurons in the fruit fly brain.
- 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 226:
Synonyms
- corpora pedunculata