limbic system

noun

A part of the brain, in humans and various other animals, that is involved in emotion, motivation, and emotional association with memory; in humans it includes the amygdala, cingulate gyrus, fornicate gyrus, hippocampus, hypothalamus, mammillary body, nucleus accumbens, orbitofrontal cortex and parahippocampal gyrus.

“Holonyms: brain < central nervous system, CNS”

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visceral brainlimbic brain
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Meanings

nounlimbic system (plural limbic systems)

plural limbic systems

  1. anatomyA part of the brain, in humans and various other animals, that is involved in emotion, motivation, and emotional association with memory; in humans it includes the amygdala, cingulate gyrus, fornicate gyrus, hippocampus, hypothalamus, mammillary body, nucleus accumbens, orbitofrontal cortex and parahippocampal gyrus.

    Holonyms: brain < central nervous system, CNS

    1 more example

    I'm always bored, it seems nothing excites me My own limbic system fights me I've got watchlists I'll never watch And pruritus scroti in my crotch.

    2026, “You You You”performed by Arab Strap

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna system of functionally related neural structures in the brain that are involved in emotional behavior

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visceral brainlimbic brain
Broader
neural structure

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Catalan sistema límbic
  • sistema límbicpart of the human brain
Chinese Mandarin 邊緣系統 /边缘系统, 邊緣系 /边缘系
  • 邊緣系統 /边缘系统 (biānyuán xìtǒng)part of the human brain
  • 邊緣系 /边缘系 (biānyuánxì)part of the human brain
Czech limbický systém
  • limbický systémpart of the human brain
French système limbique
  • système limbiquepart of the human brain
Greek μεταιχμιακό σύστημα
  • μεταιχμιακό σύστημα (metaichmiakó sýstima)part of the human brain
Italian sistema limbico
  • sistema limbicopart of the human brain
Japanese 大脳辺縁系
  • 大脳辺縁系 (dainō hen'enkei)part of the human brain
Portuguese sistema límbico
  • sistema límbicopart of the human brain
Russian лимби́ческая систе́ма
  • лимби́ческая систе́ма (limbíčeskaja sistéma)part of the human brain
Spanish sistema límbico
  • sistema límbicopart of the human brain
Ukrainian лімбі́чна систе́ма
  • лімбі́чна систе́ма (limbíčna systéma)part of the human brain
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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