external capsule

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Introduction

A thin layer of myelinated nerve fibers separating the claustrum from the putamen

It joins the internal capsule at either end of the putamen, forming a capsule of white matter external to the lentiform nucleus

More general terms

Component of

References

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