putamen
Americannoun
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Botany. a hard or stony endocarp, as a peach stone.
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a shell membrane.
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Origin of putamen
1820–30; < Latin putāmen, equivalent to putā ( re ) to prune, clean + -men resultative suffix
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Participants who stopped practicing music showed declines in verbal working memory and a reduction in gray matter volume within the right putamen.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 13, 2026
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.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025
This suggests pharmacological treatments that target dopamine in the sensorimotor putamen could help combat these conditions, Boswell says.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 29, 2023
There is the putamen, which helps our limbs move.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2021
Drupe with thin flesh and a 2-celled bony putamen.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
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