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corpora striata

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cor⋅pus stri⋅a⋅tum

  [kawr-puhs strahy-ey-tuhm]
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–noun, plural cor⋅po⋅ra stri⋅a⋅ta  [kawr-per-uh strahy-ey-tuh] . Anatomy.
a mass of gray matter beneath the cortex and in front of the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere.
Origin:
1850–55; < NL: striated body
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corpora stri·a·ta   (strī-ā'tə)   
n.  Plural of corpus striatum.
corpus stri·a·tum   (strī-ā'təm)   
n.   pl. corpora stri·a·ta (strī-ā'tə)
Either of two gray and white, striated bodies of nerve fibers located in the lower lateral wall of each cerebral hemisphere.

[New Latin corpus striātum : Latin corpus, body + Latin striātum, neuter of striātus, striated.]
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Main Entry: corpus stri·a·tum
Pronunciation: -"strI-'At-&m
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural corpora stri·a·ta /-'At-&/
: either of a pair of masses of nerve tissue which lie beneath and external to the anterior cornua of the lateral ventricles of the brain and form part of theirfloor and each of which contains a caudate nucleus and a lentiform nucleus separated by sheets of white matter to give the mass a striated appearance in section
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