basal ganglion

Questions about basal ganglion

What does basal ganglion mean?

basal ganglion means "any of several masses of subcortical grey matter at the base of each cerebral hemisphere that seem to be involved in the regulation of voluntary movement".

Is basal ganglion a common word?

basal ganglion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.