striatum

English

Noun

striatum (plural striatums or striata)

1. (neuroanatomy) The caudate nucleus and the lentiform nucleus considered as a single structure.
   • 2006 June 25, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, “An Anti-Addiction Pill?”, in The New York Times Magazine‎^[1]:

     Those nonaddicts who picked a winning card had increased blood flow to the striatum, but the gambling addicts who picked the right card had much less of it (their reward system was less active).

Synonyms

• corpus striatum

Meronyms

• (in primates): ventral striatum, dorsal striatum

Derived terms

• dorsal striatum
• ventral striatum

Latin

Participle

striātum

1. inflection of striātus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular