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globus

British  
/ ˈɡləʊbəs /

noun

  1. anatomy any spherelike structure

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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First, the researchers spent two years observing and testing the efficacy of stimulating both the subthalamic nucleus and the globus pallidus with the standard, continuous DBS.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024

Their most prized bust, “St. Francis of Adelaide,” a small marble piece by Kehinde Wiley, depicts a Black man wearing a tank top holding the globus cruciger, a symbol of regality, in a saintly pose.

From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2022

When a surgeon inserted electrodes in the young woman’s globus pallidus, her abnormal movements diminished.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 14, 2018

It was most severe in the caudate nucleus and putamen, and appeared less severe in thalamus and it was least prominent in the globus pallidus.

From Nature ● Sep. 8, 2015

There is a story of a gentleman in Pesth who went to a dealer in maps and inquired for a globus of Hungary, showing that he imagined it to be the whole round earth.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

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