Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pallidostriatal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pal-li-dos-tri-atal
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Relating to the globus pallidus and the striatum

Example Sentences

"Retrograde labeling identifies ~17% of pallidostriatal neurons as PV +, at least a subset of which also innervate the STN and SNr. Optogenetic experiments in acute brain slices demonstrate that the PV + pallidostriatal axons make potent inhibitory synapses on low threshold spiking (LTS) and fast-spiking interneurons (FS) in the striatum, but rarely on spiny projection neurons (SPNs)."

Etymology

From pallido- + striatal.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pallido

Questions

What does pallidostriatal mean?: Relating to the globus pallidus and the striatum
Where does pallidostriatal come from?: From pallido- + striatal.

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