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Meaning of "tegmental" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TEGMENTAL

tegmental  [teɡˈmentəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TEGMENTAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tegmental is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TEGMENTAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tegmental in the English dictionary

The definition of tegmental in the dictionary is of or relating to the tegmentum: the hard protective, sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants. Other definition of tegmental is of or relating to the tegmentum: the part of the brainstem that covers the floor of the midbrain.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TEGMENTAL


antisentimental
ˌæntɪˌsentɪˈmentəl
argental
ɑːˈdʒentəl
biparental
ˌbaɪpəˈrentəl
cliental
klaɪˈentəl
compartmental
ˌkɒmpɑːtˈmentəl
dental
ˈdɛntəl
departmental
ˌdiːpɑːtˈmentəl
environmental
ɪnˌvaɪərənˈmentəl
excremental
ˌekskrɪˈmentəl
grandparental
ˈɡrændpəˌrentəl
impedimental
ɪmˌpedɪˈmentəl
implemental
ˌɪmplɪˈmentəl
nonjudgemental
ˌnɒndʒʌdʒˈmentəl
nonmental
ˌnɒnˈmentəl
tenemental
ˌtenəˈmentəl
transplacental
ˌtrænzpləˈsentəl
trental
ˈtrentəl
ungentle
ʌnˈdʒentəl
unornamental
ˌʌnˌɔːnəˈmentəl
vestmental
vestˈmentəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TEGMENTAL

teff
tefillah
tefillin
TEFL
Teflon
teg
tegmen
tegmentum
tegmina
tegminal
tegu
tegua
Tegucigalpa
tegula
tegular
tegularly
tegulated
tegument
tegumental
tegumentary

WORDS THAT END LIKE TEGMENTAL

accidental
car rental
Continental
developmental
documental
elemental
fundamental
governmental
horizontal
incremental
instrumental
intercontinental
mental
monumental
occidental
oriental
ornamental
parental
rental
sentimental
supplemental

Synonyms and antonyms of tegmental in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tegmental» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TEGMENTAL

Find out the translation of tegmental to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tegmental from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tegmental» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

被盖
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tegmental
570 millions of speakers

English

tegmental
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

टेगमेंटल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

السقيفية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

покрышки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tegmental
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

tegmental
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tegmentale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tegmental
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tegmental
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

被蓋
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

tegmental
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tegmental
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tegmental
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

tegmental
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टेगॅन्टल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tegmental
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tegmental
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nakrywki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

покришки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tegmentală
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καλυπτρικής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tegmentale
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tegmentala
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tegmentale
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tegmental

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TEGMENTAL»

The term «tegmental» is regularly used and occupies the 76.580 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TEGMENTAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tegmental

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TEGMENTAL»

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The Responses of Ventral Tegmental Area Neurons to ...
Chapter 2 Neuronal Responses to Appetitive Pavlovian Cues in the Ventral Tegmental Area Abstract Excitatory phasic responses to reward-predictive cues develop with Pavlovian conditioning in putative dopamine neurons in the ventral  ...
Bhavana Vishnubhotla, 2008
2
The Excitatory Actions of Corticotropin-releasing Factor on ...
The excitatory actions of corticotropin-releasing factor on ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons By Matthew J Wanat under the direction of Dr. Antonello Bonci Abstract: The dopamine neurons of the ventral tegmental area (VTA) are ...
Matthew J. Wanat, 2007
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The Brain and Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral ...
The ventral tegmental area has recently been included as one of the basal ganglia (Figures 7.1, 10.3 and 10.4). It is located in the midbrain and appears as a ventromedial extension of the substantia nigra pars com- pacta. In addition to their ...
David L. Clark, Nash N. Boutros, Mario F. Mendez, 2010
4
Ventral Tegmental Area: Anterior-posterior Differences in ...
The ventral tegmental area (VTA) exhibits different anatomy and function along the anterior-posterior axis, especially with the anterior VTA (aVTA) and posterior VTA (pVTA) differentially involved in the stimulating and reinforcing effects ...
Zhengming Ding, 2008
5
Neuroanatomy of Social Behaviour: An Evolutionary and ...
Input from the laterodorsal tegmental nucleus to the ventral tegmental area is essential for burst firing of dopaminergic neurons and it has been argued by Grace et al. (2007) that this input “provides the permissive 'gate' that enables dopamine ...
Ralf-Peter Behrendt, 2011
6
The Human Nervous System
... posterior part vestibulomesencephalic tract ventral funiculus ventral horn ventral nucleus of the lateral lemniscus ventrolateral medullary vein ventrolateral sulcus ventrolateral periaqueductal gray ventrolateral tegmental area ventral median ...
Juergen K. Mai, George Paxinos, 2011
7
The Primate Nervous System
The prefrontal cortex of this species receives input primarily from a circumscribed midline group of ventral tegmental area neurons and it is this projection that has been traditionally associated with the mesocortical system. In primates, however  ...
Floyd E. Bloom, A. Bjorklund, T. Hokfelt, 1999
8
Psychiatry
Opioids activate opioid receptors in the ventral tegmental area, nucleus accumbens, and amygdala via direct actions on interneurons. Opioids facilitate the release of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens via an action either in the ventral ...
Allan Tasman, Jerald Kay, Jeffrey A. Lieberman, 2011
9
Role of the Ventral Tegmental Area, Cannabinoid Receptors ...
The present series of studies explored these VTA neurons from two perspectives: First, we explored the VTA as a potential site of action for cannabinoid receptors (CB1 R) and provide the first detailed analysis of the distribution of CB1R ...
Erik Justin Shank, 2007
10
Brain Control of Wakefulness and Sleep
Chapter 9 takes up the source of these influences in brainstem reticular neurons and the brainstem cholinergic neurons in the pedunculopontine tegmental (PPT) and laterodorsal tegmental (LDT) nuclei, with data from extracellular recordings ...
Mircea M. Steriade, Robert W. McCarley, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TEGMENTAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tegmental is used in the context of the following news items.
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How Cocaine Can Prime the Brain for Relapse
They focused on the interaction between two neuropeptides, corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) and orexin-A in the ventral tegmental area of the brain. «PsychCentral.com, Jul 15»
2
Descrito el circuito neuronal del deseo, el placer y la adicción
El trabajo, que ha sido publicado en 'Frontiers in Neuroanatomy', investiga el área tegmental ventral (VTA), que es el principal eslabón del denominado 'circuito ... «Noticias de Gipuzkoa, May 15»
3
Cocaine changes the brain and makes relapse more common in …
More information: 'Orexin-CRF Receptor Heteromers in the Ventral Tegmental Area as Targets for Cocaine' is published in The Journal of Neuroscience on April ... «Medical Xpress, Apr 15»
4
Numbing Joy: How drug abuse leads to intense highs …
We also discovered that another part of the brain (ventral tegmental area), is designed to analyze and respond to any unexpected spikes in the pleasure center ... «The Herald Journal, Mar 15»
5
Stimulating Your Brain, Wirelessly
In a practical sense, DBS works by sending regular electrical pulses into selected brain regions, such as the ventral tegmental area (VTA), a part of the brain ... «Pacific Standard, Mar 15»
6
Compulsive Overeating And Sugar Consumption Could Be Treated …
A research team suggested a neural pathway from the lateral hypothalamus to the ventral tegmental area could be to plain for compulsive overeating because it ... «Headlines & Global News, Feb 15»
7
Public Release: 29-Jan-2015 Researchers discover brain circuit that …
Tye and her team suspected that a neural pathway from the lateral hypothalamus to the ventral tegmental area might play an important role in compulsive ... «EurekAlert, Jan 15»
8
UCSF Journal Club: Recent research by UCSF scientists
Interestingly, one population of dopamine neurons located in the ventral tegmental area survived despite also showing decreased axonal mitochondria. «Synapse, Nov 14»
9
This is your brain on dogs
A region known to be important to bond formation - the substantia nigra/ventral tegmental area - was activated only in response to images of a participant's own ... «Science a Gogo, Oct 14»
10
Curiosity Changes the Brain to Boost Learning and Memory
... boosts activity in and interaction between three parts of the brain: the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) and substantia nigra/ventral tegmental area (SN/VTA), which ... «Healthline, Oct 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Tegmental [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/tegmental>. Apr 2024 ».
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