See Also: Pretectal area(health)
pretectal area(medicine)
pretectal region(medicine)
pretectal nucleus(medicine)
shut-in(dictionary)
shut-out(dictionary)
shut-out(dictionary)
shut-eye(dictionary)
shut(1)(dictionary)
shut(2)(dictionary)

Shut out the book (money) and pretectal area (medicine)


Shut out the book (money)


Definition: [crh] Used for listed equity securities. Exclude a public bid or offer from participation in a print.







pretectal area (medicine)


pretectal area


A narrow, transversally oriented rostral zone of the mesencephalic tectum, bounded caudally by the superior colliculus, rostrally by the habenular trigone, and laterally by the pulvinar thalami; the area contains several nuclei that receive fibres from the optic tract; it has bilateral efferent connections with the Edinger-Westphal nucleus of the oculomotor nuclear complex by way of which it mediates the pupillary light reflex.

Synonym: pretectal region, pretectum.