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striatum

striatum noun: the caudate nucleus and the lentiform nucleus considered as a single structure.

Noun

striatum (plural striatums or striata)

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

striatum meaning in Tamil

striatum in Tamil

வரித்திரளி

Synonyms of striatum

Forms of striatum

pluralstriatums
pluralstriata

Words formed from striatum

Phrases with striatum

Questions about striatum

What does striatum mean?
Striatum means the caudate nucleus and the lentiform nucleus considered as a single structure.
What is striatum in Tamil?
Striatum in Tamil is வரித்திரளி. See Striatum meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is striatum?
Striatum is a noun.
What is the plural of striatum?
The plural of striatum is striatums.

Words near striatum in the dictionary

  1. striatopallidal
  2. striatopunctate
  3. striatosome
  4. striatosomes
  5. striatothalamic
  6. striatum
  7. striatums
  8. striature
  9. striatures
  10. Strib
  11. Stribling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: striatum (page history and authors); striatum (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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