striatum

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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).

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striātum

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