claustrum
Americannoun
plural
claustraEtymology
Origin of claustrum
1840–50; < New Latin; Latin: bolt, barrier, equivalent to claud ( ere ) to close, shut + -trum instrumental suffix; cf. cloister
Example Sentences
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The key nodes of the network identified by the researchers were putamen, amygdala and claustrum located deep within the brain, and the connections between them.
From Science Daily • May 28, 2024
The claustrum helps to regulate concentration, but its exact role remains unknown.
From Science Daily • Sep. 21, 2023
But the authors saw that 28 out of 29 cases affected networks that connected through a small, sheet-like structure called the claustrum.
From Scientific American • Oct. 30, 2018
It took the combination of the lesions and the connectome to identify the claustrum as a structure of importance for parkinsonism.
From Scientific American • Oct. 30, 2018
De Bethleem in Austrum duabus leucis habetur claustrum Sanctæ Charitatis, ibidem suo tempore Abbatissæ.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Hakluyt, Richard
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