lenticular nucleus

noun

lenticular nucleus

noun
1

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroanatomy, Neurology, Neuroscience, Sciences Either one of two parts —one on each hemisphere— of the basal ganglia, which is roughly lens-shaped and having two parts which would correspond to two sides of a biconvex lens: the putamen and the globus pallidus (which face outboard and inboard, as it were, respectively).

Synonyms
lentiform nucleus
Holonyms
basal ganglia, dorsal striatum
Meronyms
globus pallidus, putamen

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