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parastriate

parastriate adjective: beyond or over the striatum.

Adjective

parastriate (not comparable)

  1. Beyond or over the striatum
    • This pattern of grey matter atrophy included the parastriate and peristriate occipital lobe cortices (BA18 and BA19 respectively) and the posterior part of the temporal lobes (superior temporal gyrus BA22, BA41) and of parietal lobes (angular gyrus BA39, precuneus and superior parietal lobule BA7).2015 October 20, “Usefulness of Multi-Parametric MRI for the Investigation of Posterior Cortical Atrophy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of parastriate

From para- + striate.

Questions about parastriate

What does parastriate mean?
Parastriate means beyond or over the striatum.
What part of speech is parastriate?
Parastriate is an adjective.

Words near parastriate in the dictionary

  1. parastrachiid
  2. parastrachiids
  3. parastratotype
  4. parastratotypes
  5. parastriatal
  6. parastriate
  7. parastronaut
  8. parastronauts
  9. parastylar
  10. parastyle
  11. parastyles

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