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lateral hypothalamic area

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The lateral hypothalamus or lateral hypothalamic area is a part of the hypothalamus. It is concerned with hunger. Damage to this area can cause reduced food intake. Stimulating the lateral hypothalamus causes a desire to eat, while stimulating the ventromedial hypothalamus causes a desire to stop eating. [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_hypothalamic_area ]

Synonyms: lateral group of hypothalamic nuclei lateral hypothalamic group lateral hypothalamic zone (Crosby) lateral division of hypothalamus lateral hypothalamic region area hypothalamica lateralis

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Term information

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Subsets

uberon_slim

latin term
area hypothalamica lateralis [ FMA:62030 FMA:TA ]

abbreviation
LH [ NIFSTD:NeuroNames_abbrevSource BIRNLEX:4037 ]

latin term
area lateralis hypothalami [ NeuroNames:426 ]

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/HypothalamicNuclei.PNG

has related synonym

lateral hypothalamic area (Nissl 1913)

lateral hypothalamic area proper

lateral hypothalamic nucleus

area lateralis hypothalami

id

UBERON:0002430

mutually spatially disjoint with

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001931

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001933

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001907

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001906

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_117569