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Definition: STRIATUM |
STRIATUMNoun1. The corpus striatum. |
Etymology: Striatum \Stri*a"tum\, noun. [New Latin]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | A higher brain's domain thus called because of its stripes. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: STRIATUM |
| English words defined with "STRIATUM": thalamostriate vein. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "STRIATUM": Antiparkinson Agents ♦ Deprenyl ♦ Neostriatum, Nucleus Accumbens ♦ selegiline. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Blood agar plate culture of Corynebacterium striatum. Credit: CDC. | |
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Health | See basal ganglia, striatum. (references) | |
The striatum is composed of the caudate nucleus, putamen, and ventral striatum. (references) | ||
Scientists do not yet know exactly how these changes affect subsets of nerve cells outside the striatum. (references) | ||
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| "STRIATUM" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "STRIATUM" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
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Expression using "STRIATUM": Corpus striatum. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
striatum | 4 |
corpus striatum | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "STRIATUM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | corpus striatum (corpus striatum). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | gestreept lichaam (corpus striatum), corpus striatum (basal ganglia, corpus striatum). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | striatum, corps strié (corpus striatum). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Streifenkörper, Corpus striatum (corpus striatum). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | ραβδωτό σώμα (corpus striatum). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | corpo striatum, corpo striato. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | iatumstray cuerpo estriado (corpus striatum). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"STRIATUM" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scriptum, seriatum, striatus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "STRIATUM" (pronounced 'Stri*a"tum'): Aconitum, Adiantum, Amentum, Arboretum, Datum, Fretum, frustum, mentum, Mesonotum, Mesorectum, Mesoscutum, Metanotum, momentum, Multum, Notum, Oblatum, Omentum, Petrolatum, Pilentum, Pinetum, Plebiscitum, Postfactum, Postulatum, Prescutum, Prolatum, Pronotum, Punctum, Quantum, Quotum, rectum, sanctum, Sarcoseptum, scrotum, Scutum, septum, sputum, stratum, Submentum, substratum, tomentum, ultimatum, Uncinatum. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-m-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: atriums, stratum, turista. | |
-2 letters: artist, atrium, aurist, autism, strait, strati, struma, traits, truism. | |
-3 letters: airts, amirs, arums, astir, auris, mairs, maist, marts, matts, mauts, mitts, muras, mutts, ramus, simar, sitar, smart, stair, start, stria, strum, strut, sturt, sutra, sutta, tamis, tarsi, tarts, tauts, trait, trams, trims, trust. | |
-4 letters: aims, airs, airt, aits, amir, amis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-m-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+2 letters: maturities, micturates, mutilators, nasturtium, stimulator, traumatise, traumatism. | |
+3 letters: autoerotism, gutturalism, marquisette, maturations, miniaturist, multitracks, nasturtiums, natatoriums, outsmarting, restimulate, stimulators, stimulatory, suprematist, tautomerism, transmuting, traumatised, traumatises, traumatisms, traumatizes. | |
+4 letters: autoerotisms, curtailments, gutturalisms, immaturities, instrumental, magistrature, marquisettes, masturbating, masturbation, matriculants, matriculates, menstruating, menstruation, metallurgist, miniaturists, misattribute, nimbostratus, permutations, restimulated, restimulates, stratocumuli, suprematists, tautomerisms, tetrazoliums, traumatising, triumphalist, triumvirates, ultraleftism. | |
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