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| | Dorlands Medical Dictionary |
 | | na, [TA] internal capsule: a fanlike mass of white fibers that separates the lentiform nucleus laterally from the head of the caudate nucleus, the dorsal thalamus, and the tail of the caudate nucleus medially; it consists of an anterior limb, a genu, and a posterior limb consisting of three parts, thalamolenticular, sublenticular, and retrolenticular. |
 | | The internal capsule is known to carry corticofugal (efferent) fibers from the cerebral cortex; its exact role in carrying afferent fibers to the cortex remains uncertain. |
 | | adhesive capsulitis, adhesive inflammation between the joint capsule and the peripheral articular cartilage of the shoulder with obliteration of the subdeltoid bursa, characterized by painful shoulder of gradual onset, with increasing pain, stiffness, and limitation of motion. |
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