chaparejos (iou) and nucleus dentatus cerebelli (medicine)

chaparejos (iou)

chaparejos noun pl. . M19.
[Mexican Spanish chaparreras, from chaparra, -o: see CHAPARRAL. Later form -ejos prob. infl. by Spanish aparejo equipment.]
= CHAPS.

nucleus dentatus cerebelli (medicine)

nucleus dentatus cerebelli -->
dentate nucleus of cerebellum

The most lateral and largest of the cerebellar nuclei; it receives the axons of the Purkinje cells of the neocerebellum (lateral areas of cerebellar cortex); together with the more medially located globosus and emboliform nuclei it is the major source of fibres composing the massive superior cerebellar peduncle or brachium conjunctivum.

Synonym: nucleus dentatus cerebelli, corpus dentatum, dentatum.

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