lenticular nucleus

English

Noun

lenticular nucleus (plural lenticular nuclei or lenticular nucleuses)

1. (neuroanatomy) 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

Meronyms

• globus pallidus
• putamen

Holonyms

• basal ganglia
• dorsal striatum