Found 2 items, similar to CORPUS STRIATUM.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: corpus striatum
corpus striatum
n : 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 [syn:
striatum,
striate body]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Corpus striatum
Corpus
\Cor"pus\ (-p[u^]s), n.; pl.
Corpora (-p[-o]*r[.a]).
[L.]
A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.
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Corpus callosum (k[a^]l*l[=o]"s[u^]m); pl.
Corpora callosa
(-s?) [NL., callous body] (Anat.), the great band
of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres.
See
Brain.
Corpus Christi (kr[i^]s"t[imac]) [L., body of Christ] (R.
C. Ch.), a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on
the Thursday after Trinity Sunday.
Corpus Christi cloth. Same as
Pyx cloth, under
Pyx.
Corpus delicti (d[-e]*l[i^]k"t[imac]) [L., the body of the
crime] (Law), the substantial and fundamental fact of the
comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a
crime.
Corpus luteum (l[=u]"t[-e]*[u^]m); pl.
Corpora lutea
(-[.a]). [NL., luteous body] (Anat.), the reddish yellow
mass which fills a ruptured Graafian follicle in the
mammalian ovary.
Corpus striatum (str[-i]*[=a]"t[u^]m); pl.
Corpora striata
(-t[.a]). [NL., striate body] (Anat.), a ridge in
the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.
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