lenticular nucleus

== English == === Noun === lenticular nucleus (plural lenticular nuclei or lenticular nucleuses) (neuroanatomy) Either one of two parts —one on each hemisphere— of the basal ganglia, which is roughly lens-shaped and having two parts which would correspond to two sides of a biconvex lens: the putamen and the globus pallidus (which face outboard and inboard, as it were, respectively). ==== Synonyms ==== lentiform nucleus ==== Meronyms ==== globus pallidus putamen ==== Holonyms ==== basal ganglia dorsal striatum