restiform body

restiform body
/res"teuh fawrm'/, Anat.
a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
[1825-35; restiform < NL restiformis, equiv. to L resti-, comb. form of restis rope + -formis -FORM]

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