putamen

American  

[pyoo-tey-min] / pyuˈteɪ mɪn /

noun

PLURAL

putamina

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

• putaminous adjective

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

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

From Science Daily

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.

From Science Daily

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

There is the putamen, which helps our limbs move.

From Los Angeles Times