Striatum

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Striatum \Stri*a"tum\, n. [NL.] (Anat.)
     The corpus striatum.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  striatum
       n : a striped mass of white and grey matter located in front of
           the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere; consists of the
           caudate nucleus and the lenticular nucleus [syn: {corpus
           striatum}, {striate body}]