putamen

Subcortical nucleus of telencephalic , which together with the caudate nucleus, forms the striatum. The putamen lies lateral to the internal capsule and medial to the external medullary lamina, and is separated from the caudate nucleus by the fibers of the internal capsule for most of its length, except at its anterior portion. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the putamen is

Subcortical nucleus of telencephalic , which together with the caudate nucleus, forms the striatum. The putamen lies lateral to the internal capsule and medial to the external medullary lamina, and is separated from the caudate nucleus by the fibers of the internal capsule for most of its length, except at its anterior portion. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the putamen is

It sits within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the putamen connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of cerebral hemisphere, dorsal striatum and striatum, and 2 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the putamen. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as nucleus putamen. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001874, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: cerebral hemisphere, dorsal striatum, striatum, telencephalon and lentiform nucleus.
• A kind of: central nervous system cell part cluster and nucleus of brain.
• subtype: left putamen and right putamen.

Questions

Where is the putamen?

It sits within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the putamen connect to?

Part of: cerebral hemisphere, dorsal striatum, striatum, telencephalon and lentiform nucleus.

Is the putamen the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.