the hard endocarp or stone of fruits such as the peach, plum, and cherry
Word origin
C19: from Latin: clippings, from putāre to prune
Examples of 'putamina' in a sentence
putamina
Shape analyses showed thinning of bilateral dorsomedial putamina, left ventromedial caudate nucleus and left medial pallidum associated with xenomelia.
Jürgen Hänggi, Dorian Bellwald, Peter Brugger 2016, 'Shape alterations of basal ganglia and thalamus in xenomelia', NeuroImage: Clinicalhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213158216300912. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Pathological examination disclosed an intense red coloration of the putamina and axonal «spheroids» at electron microscopy.
A. U. Bresolin, L. Pascuzzi, R. Melaragno Filho, Maria H. Fontana, R. Pécora, J. C.Souza Dias 1988, ''Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome - infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy' complex: case report',Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatriahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X1988000100012&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)