putamen

American  

[pyoo-tey-min] / pyuˈteɪ mɪn /

noun

putamina plural

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

2. a shell membrane.

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putamen British  

/ pjuːˈteɪmɛn /

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• putaminous
  adjective

Inflected Forms

noun

• putamina
  plural

Etymology

Origin of putamen

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

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.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2025

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

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024

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.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 29, 2023

There is the putamen, which helps our limbs move.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2021

External to the putamen is a long narrow strip of grey matter called the claustrum, which is sometimes regarded as a third nucleus of the corpus striatum.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various