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amygdale

/ əˈ³¾ÉªÉ¡»å±ðɪ±ô /

noun

  1. a vesicle in a volcanic rock, formed from a bubble of escaping gas, that has become filled with light-coloured minerals, such as quartz and calcite Also calledamygduleəˈmɪɡdjuËl
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of amygdale1

C19: from Greek: almond
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But slicing the brain like so much salami deforms the tissue and makes it difficult to work out long-range connections, like those between such far-flung regions as the prefrontal cortex and the amygdale.

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If the hippocampus helps record facts, a more basic brain structure, the amygdale, records fear.

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