caudate nucleus

noun

caudate nucleus

noun

1

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroanatomy, Neurology, Neuroscience, Sciences a nucleus within each hemisphere of the brain, sitting astride the thalamus and located near the center of the brain.

Holonyms: basal ganglia, corpus striatum, striatum

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