Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a tail or taillike appendage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a tail.
- Having a tail-like appendage.
- noun A member of the amphibian order Caudata; a tailed batrachian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a tail; having a terminal appendage like a tail. Opposite of
acaudate .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Tapering into a long,
tail -like extension at theapex . - adjective zoology Having a
tail . - adjective zoology Of or pertaining to the
Caudata order ofamphibians
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a leaf shape) tapering gradually into a long taillike tip
- noun amphibians that resemble lizards
- adjective having a tail or taillike appendage
- noun a tail-shaped basal ganglion located in a lateral ventricle of the brain
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They are called the caudate nucleus and the tegmentum.
Rick Hanson, Ph.D.: How Did Humans Evolve The Most Loving Brain On Earth? Ph.D. Rick Hanson 2010
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The caudate is a region of the brain that receives dopamine, she said.
Weight gain seems to change the brain's response to food 2010
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The caudate is a reward center of the brain, and the tegmentum is a region of the brain stem that sends dopamine to it; dopamine tracks how rewarding something is.
Rick Hanson, Ph.D.: How Did Humans Evolve The Most Loving Brain On Earth? Ph.D. Rick Hanson 2010
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They are called the caudate nucleus and the tegmentum.
Rick Hanson, Ph.D.: How Did Humans Evolve The Most Loving Brain On Earth? Ph.D. Rick Hanson 2010
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The caudate is a region of the brain that receives dopamine, she said.
Weight gain seems to change the brain's response to food 2010
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The caudate is a reward center of the brain, and the tegmentum is a region of the brain stem that sends dopamine to it; dopamine tracks how rewarding something is.
Rick Hanson, Ph.D.: How Did Humans Evolve The Most Loving Brain On Earth? Ph.D. Rick Hanson 2010
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Joseph and Barbara, he suspected, had a malfunction in a part of their brains called the caudate nucleus, which acts like a gearshift for processing thought.
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In the study, a computer-generated map of particularly active areas showed hot spots deep in the brain, below conscious awareness, in areas called the caudate nucleus and the ventral tegmental area, which communicate with each other as part of a circuit.
Love and the Brain Zoe Brain 2005
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In the study, a computer-generated map of particularly active areas showed hot spots deep in the brain, below conscious awareness, in areas called the caudate nucleus and the ventral tegmental area, which communicate with each other as part of a circuit.
Archive 2005-06-01 Zoe Brain 2005
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We measured the number of dopamine D2 receptors in the tissues in an area called the caudate nucleus—an area that normally has the highest density of these receptors.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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