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nigostriatal

nigostriatal is the misspelling of nigrostriatal.

Meaning of nigrostriatal

Adjective

nigrostriatal (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to a neural connection between the substantia nigra and the striatum.
    • “The mesocortical, mesolimbic, and nigrostriatal dopamine pathways are what the call the reward pathways, all right? They’re the ones that activate when we’re expecting or receiving a reward.”2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 154

Questions about nigostriatal

What is nigostriatal the misspelling of?
Nigostriatal is the misspelling of nigrostriatal.

Words near nigostriatal in the dictionary

  1. Nigoghosians
  2. nigon
  3. nigons
  4. nigori
  5. nigorobuna
  6. nigostriatal
  7. NigP
  8. nigra
  9. nigral
  10. nigranilin
  11. nigraniline

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nigostriatal (page history and authors); nigrostriatal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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