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n. - A layer of grey matter in the brain adjacent to the lenticular nucleus.

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  • The claustrum is a thin sheet of grey matter that is parallel to and below part of the cortex, as illustrated by images from Crick's paper here.
  • Rintherout’s precaution of leaving the door open when she went down to the fisher’s cottage, will probably acquit poor Juno of that aggravation of guilt which the lawyers call...
  • Bethleem in Austrum duabus leucis habetur claustrum Sanctæ
  • Bethleem in Austrum duabus leucis habetur claustrum Sanct�
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