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Definition of Corpus striatum

1. Noun. 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.

Definition of Corpus striatum

1. Noun. (anatomy) The striated mass of white and grey matter in front of the thalamus on each side of the brain ¹

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Medical Definition of Corpus striatum

1. Striped gray and white matter consisting of the neostriatum and paleostriatum (globus pallidus). It is located in front of and lateral to the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere. The gray substance is made up of the caudate nucleus and the lentiform nucleus (the latter consisting of the globus pallidus and putamen). The white matter is the internal capsule. (12 Dec 1998)

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Literary usage of Corpus striatum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"The corpus striatum has loomed very large recently in pathology. ... The comparative morphology of the corpus striatum is one of the most interesting ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1916)
"birds and mammals; so in proportion to the corpus striatum as a whole the ... This may perhaps suggest that the corpus striatum should be considered as a ..."

3. The Anatomy of the Nervous System by Stephen Walter Ranson (1920)
"It seems probable that the corpus striatum exerts a steadying influence upon ... The probable connections of the corpus striatum are indicated in Fig. 196. ..."

4. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(a) Lesions of the Basal Ganglia L The corpus striatum The functions of the nucleus caudatus and of the nucleus lentiformis (which, together, ..."

5. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"The corpus striatum (Fig. 450i has received its nume from the striped appearance which its section presents, in consequence of diverging white fibres being ..."

6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1890)
"In favor of this view is the fact that a very small lesion of the corpus striatum will cause a considerable rise in temperature. I have seen a mere puncture ..."

7. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"FORNIX, HIPPOCAMPUS, AND corpus striatum. The dorsal portion of the hemispheres has been dissected away and the cor] callosum removed, a, fornix; ..."

8. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Luther Holden (1878)
"Its floor is formed by the following parts, enumerated in their order of position, from before backwards : the corpus striatum, ..."

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