AMYGDALA

[amyg.da.la] n, pl -lae [NL, fr. L, almond, fr. Gk amygdale] (ca. 1860): the one of the four basal ganglia in each cerebral hemisphere that is part of the limbic system and consists of an almond-shaped mass of gray matter in the anterior extremity of the temporal lobe--called also amygdaloid nucleus