Lenticular nucleus

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Either one of two parts —one on each hemisphere— of the basal ganglia, which is roughly lens-shaped and having two parts which would correspond to two sides of a biconvex lens: the putamen and the globus pallidus (which face outboard and inboard, as it were, respectively).
  2. 2
    a basal ganglion shaped like a lens and including the outer reddish putamen and the inner pale yellow pallidum wordnet

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