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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

These reclaim the inverted motions without increasing the heat of the body above its natural state, if given in their proper doses, as in the globus hystericus, and palpitation of the heart.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

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