lenticular nucleus
noun1
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