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amygdala | x |

As a noun amygdala

is amygdala.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

amygdala

English

(wikipedia amygdala)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (anatomy) The region of the brain, located in the medial temporal lobe, believed to play a key role in the emotions, such as fear and pleasure, in both animals and humans.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 12, author=David Brooks, title=The Worst-Case Scenario , work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Cognitive scientists distinguish between normal risk-assessment decisions, which activate the reward-prediction regions of the brain, and decisions made amid extreme uncertainty, which generate activity in the amygdala .}}

    Holonyms

    * (region of the brain) brain

    Related terms

    * amygdalin * amygdaloid

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----