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CORPUS STRIATUM
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Irregular inflected form: corpora striata
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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 nucleus
Synonyms:
corpus striatum; striate body; striatum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("corpus striatum" is a kind of...):
basal ganglion (any of several masses of subcortical grey matter at the base of each cerebral hemisphere that seem to be involved in the regulation of voluntary movement)
Meronyms (parts of "corpus striatum"):
caudate; caudate nucleus (a tail-shaped basal ganglion located in a lateral ventricle of the brain)
lenticular nucleus; lentiform nucleus (a basal ganglion shaped like a lens and including the outer reddish putamen and the inner pale yellow pallidum)
