corpus stri|a|tum

corpus stri|a|tum
corpus stri|a|tum «stry AY tuhm», plural corpora striata.
either of two bodies of nerve fibers in the brain, each forming part of the undersurface of a cerebral hemisphere.
[< New Latin corpus striatum striate body]

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