thalamus vs neural structure

thalamus and neural structure both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
thalamus	Yes	No	No	No
neural structure	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, neural structure is a hypernym of thalamus; that is, neural structure is a word with a broader meaning than thalamus:

thalamus: large egg-shaped structures of grey matter that form the dorsal subdivision of the diencephalon
neural structure: a structure that is part of the nervous system

thalamus (noun)	neural structure (noun)
large egg-shaped structures of grey matter that form the dorsal subdivision of the diencephalon	a structure that is part of the nervous system