lenticular nucleus
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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).