hypothalamus

See also: Hypothalamus

English

Etymology

hypo- +‎ thalamus

Noun

hypothalamus (plural hypothalami or hypothalamuses)

1. (neuroanatomy) A region of the forebrain located below the thalamus, forming the basal portion of the diencephalon, and functioning to regulate body temperature, some metabolic processes and governing the autonomic nervous system.
   • 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 217:

     To avoid catastrophe, the brain has its trusty control centre, the hypothalamus, which tells the body to cool itself by sweating or to warm itself by shivering.

Holonyms

• diencephalon
• limbic system

Derived terms

• hypothalamic
• hypothalamo-

Translations

a region of the brain, below the thalamus

• Albanian: hipotalamusi m
• Arabic: تَحْت اَلْمِهَاد m (taḥt al-mihād), وِطَاء m (wiṭāʔ), هَايْبُوثَلَامُوس m (hāybūṯalāmūs)
• Armenian: հիպոթալամուս (hy) (hipotʻalamus)
• Asturian: hipotálamu m
• Azerbaijani: hipotalamus
• Basque: hipotalamo
• Belarusian: гіпаталамус m (hipatalamus)
• Bengali: হাইপোথ্যালামাস (bn) (haipōtthalamaś)
• Bulgarian: хипоталамус m (hipotalamus)
• Catalan: hipotàlem m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 下丘腦／下丘脑 (haa⁶ jau¹ nou⁵)

  Mandarin: 下丘腦／下丘脑 (zh) (xiàqiūnǎo)

• Czech: hypothalamus m, podhrbolí n
• Dhivehi: ހައިޕޯތަލަމަސް (haipōtalamas)
• Dutch: hypothalamus (nl) m
• Esperanto: hipotalamo
• Finnish: hypotalamus (fi)
• French: hypothalamus (fr) m
• Galician: hipotálamo (gl) m
• Georgian: ჰიპოთალამუსი (hiṗotalamusi)
• German: Hypothalamus (de) m
• Greek: υποθάλαμος (el) m (ypothálamos)
• Haitian Creole: ipotalamis
• Hebrew: הִיפּוֹתָלָמוּס (he) m
• Hindi: अधश्चेतक (adhaścetak)
• Hungarian: hipotalamusz (hu)
• Icelandic: undirstúka f, heiladyngjubotn m
• Indonesian: hipotalamus
• Irish: hipeatalamas m
• Italian: ipotalamo (it) m
• Japanese: 視床下部 (ししょうかぶ, shishōkabu)
• Javanese: hipotalamus
• Korean: 시상하부(視床下部) (sisanghabu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hîpotalamus m

• Kyrgyz: гипоталамус (ky) (gipotalamus)
• Latvian: hipotalāms m
• Lithuanian: pagumburis m
• Macedonian: хипоталамус m (hipotalamus)
• Malay: hipotalamus
• Occitan: ipotalam m
• Persian: هیپوتالاموس (fa) (hipotâlâmus)
• Polish: podwzgórze n
• Portuguese: hipotálamo m
• Punjabi: ਹਿਪੋਥੈਲੇਮਸ m (hipothailemas)
• Romanian: hipotalamus (ro) n
• Russian: гипотала́мус (ru) m (gipotalámus)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хипота̀ламус m

  Roman: hipotàlamus (sh) m

• Slovak: podlôžko n, hypotalamus (sk) m
• Slovene: hipotalamus m
• Spanish: hipotálamo (es) m
• Sundanese: hipotalamus
• Swedish: hypotalamus (sv)
• Tamil: ஐப்போத்தலாமசு (aippōttalāmacu)
• Thai: ไฮโปทาลามัส (hai bpoh taa laa mát)
• Turkish: hipotalamus (tr)
• Ukrainian: гіпоталамус m (hipotalamus)
• Vietnamese: vùng dưới đồi
• Welsh: hypothalamws m

See also

Similar-looking but unrelated terms, not to be confused with the above

• hippopotamus
• hypotenuse

 

Czech

Alternative forms

• hypotalamus m

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦɪpotalamus]

Noun

hypothalamus m inan

1. (anatomy) hypothalamus

   Synonym: podhrbolí

Declension

Declension of hypothalamus (hard masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	hypothalamus	hypothalamy
genitive	hypothalamu	hypothalamů
dative	hypothalamu	hypothalamům
accusative	hypothalamus	hypothalamy
vocative	hypothalame	hypothalamy
locative	hypothalamu	hypothalamech
instrumental	hypothalamem	hypothalamy

Further reading

• hypothalamus in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• hypotalamus in Internetová jazyková příručka

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /i.pɔ.ta.la.mys/

• Audio (Switzerland):

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Noun

hypothalamus m (plural hypothalamus)

1. (anatomy) hypothalamus

Further reading

• “hypothalamus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.