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nigrostriatal

nigrostriatal adjective: pertaining to a neural connection between the substantia nigra and the striatum.

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

Words formed from nigrostriatal

Questions about nigrostriatal

What does nigrostriatal mean?
Nigrostriatal means pertaining to a neural connection between the substantia nigra and the striatum.
What part of speech is nigrostriatal?
Nigrostriatal is an adjective.

Words near nigrostriatal in the dictionary

  1. nigrosins
  2. nigrosomal
  3. nigrosome
  4. nigrosomes
  5. nigrostriata
  6. nigrostriatal
  7. nigrostriatally
  8. nigrostriatum
  9. nigrothalamic
  10. nigrous
  11. nigroviriditoxin

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