Anatomy study note · Head and neck

Corpus striatum

Masses of grey matter deep in each hemisphere: the caudate nucleus and the lentiform nucleus (putamen and globus pallidus), separated by the internal capsule.

Key points

• Caudate + lentiform (putamen + globus pallidus).
• Internal capsule between lentiform (lateral) and caudate/thalamus (medial).
• From the basal telencephalon.
• Central branches of the MCA.
• Basal nuclei: deep grey matter.
• Deep grey matter: nuclei surrounded by white matter.

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Written from

• Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 17, PDF pp. 338–340
• Snell’s Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 10th ed., ch. 12, PDF p. 1642
• BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 9, PDF p. 169

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