Usually means: Basal ganglia structure; regulates movement.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. putamen: Merriam-Webster
  2. putamen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. putamen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. putamen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. putamen: Vocabulary.com
  6. putamen: Wordnik
  7. putamen: Wiktionary
  8. putamen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. putamen: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. putamen: Dictionary.com
  11. Putamen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Putamen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. putamen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. putamen: Rhymezone
  15. Putamen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. putamen: FreeDictionary.org
  17. putamen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. putamen: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. putamen: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Putamen: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  6. Putamen: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  7. putamen: Medical dictionary
  8. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  9. Putamen: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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  1. putamen: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (putamen)

noun:  (botany) The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit; endocarp.
noun:  (neuroanatomy) A round structure located at the base of the forebrain, regulating movement and learning.

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