claustrum

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Introduction

A thin vertical layer of gray matter, close to the putamen from which it is separated by the external capsule.

It consists of an insular part & a temporal part.

The claustrum has reciprocal connections with sensory areas of the cerebral cortex.

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References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999