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basal ganglion

American

noun

Anatomy.

any of several masses of gray matter in each cerebral hemisphere.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

basal ganglia

plural

Etymology

Origin of basal ganglion

First recorded in 1910–15

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