putamen

[pyoo-tey-min]

noun

plural

putamina 

1. Botany.,  a hard or stony endocarp, as a peach stone.

2. a shell membrane.

putamen

/ pjuːˈteɪmɛn /

noun

1. the hard endocarp or stone of fruits such as the peach, plum, and cherry

Other Word Forms

• putaminous adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of putamen¹

1820–30; < Latin putāmen, equivalent to putā ( re ) to prune, clean + -men resultative suffix

Word History and Origins

Origin of putamen¹

C19: from Latin: clippings, from putāre to prune

Example Sentences

This is infused deep into the brain using real-time MRI scanning to guide a microcatheter to two brain regions - the caudate nucleus and the putamen.

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As the patients responded, researchers found activity in a surprising place: the putamen.

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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.

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Connections between the sensorimotor putamen and the anterior cingulate cortex, which is involved in emotion regulation, among other things, and is also implicated in habit learning, were weaker.

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There is the putamen, which helps our limbs move.

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