striatum
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Noun (1)
- a striped mass of white and grey matter located in front of the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere; consists of the caudate nucleus and the lenticular nucleusSynonyms: corpus striatumstriate bodyType of basal ganglionParts caudate nucleus, lenticular nucleus
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Stri·a′tum noun
Origin: NL.
Anatomy The corpus striatum.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54