Usually means: Emotional processing center in brain.
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  1. amygdaloid nucleus: Merriam-Webster
  2. amygdaloid nucleus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. amygdaloid nucleus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  1. amygdaloid nucleus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. Amygdaloid nucleus: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
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Definitions from WordNet (amygdaloid nucleus)

noun:  an almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum; intimately connected with the hypothalamus and the hippocampus and the cingulate gyrus; as part of the limbic system it plays an important role in motivation and emotional behavior


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