LENTICULAR NUCLEUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lenticular nucleus mean? 

• LENTICULAR NUCLEUS (noun)
  The noun LENTICULAR NUCLEUS has 1 sense:

1. a basal ganglion shaped like a lens and including the outer reddish putamen and the inner pale yellow pallidum

  Familiarity information: LENTICULAR NUCLEUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LENTICULAR NUCLEUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A basal ganglion shaped like a lens and including the outer reddish putamen and the inner pale yellow pallidum

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Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

lenticular nucleus; lentiform nucleus

Hypernyms ("lenticular nucleus" 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 "lenticular nucleus"):

globus pallidus; paleostriatum; pallidum (the inner pale yellow part of the lenticular nucleus)

putamen (the outer reddish part of the lenticular nucleus)

Holonyms ("lenticular nucleus" is a part of...):

corpus striatum; striate body; striatum (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)