lenticular nucleus

What does lenticular nucleus mean?

lenticular nucleus means "a basal ganglion shaped like a lens and including the outer reddish putamen and the inner pale yellow pallidum".

What is another word for lenticular nucleus?

Close synonyms include lentiform nucleus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lenticular nucleus a common word?

lenticular nucleus 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lenticular nucleus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.