Usually means: Emotion processing center in brain.
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  1. amygdala: Merriam-Webster
  2. amygdala: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. amygdala: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. amygdala: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Amygdala, amygdala: Wordnik
  7. amygdala: Wiktionary
  8. amygdala: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. amygdala: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. amygdala: Dictionary.com
  11. amygdala: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Amygdala (comics), Amygdala (disambiguation), Amygdala: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  15. amygdala: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  17. amygdala: Merriam-Webster

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  1. amygdala: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Amygdala: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. Amygdala: Merck Manuals
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  8. Amygdala: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
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  13. amygdala: Medical dictionary
  14. Amygdala: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. amygdala: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

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  1. amygdala: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See amygdalae as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (amygdala)

noun:  (neuroanatomy) Each one of the two regions of the brain, located as a pair in the medial temporal lobe, believed to play a key role in processing emotions, such as fear and pleasure, in both animals and humans.

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