Definition of "claustrum" []

• A thin lamina of grey matter in each cerebral hemisphere of the human brain. (noun)

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• "The claustrum is a thin sheet of grey matter that is parallel to and below part of the cortex, as illustrated by images from Crick's paper here."
• "Juno of that aggravation of guilt which the lawyers call a claustrum fregit, and which makes the distinction between burglary and privately stealing.) ` ` I am truly sorry, sir, '' said Hector, ` ` that Juno has committed so much disorder; but Jack Muirhead, the breaker, was never able to bring her under command."
• "Rintherout’s precaution of leaving the door open when she went down to the fisher’s cottage, will probably acquit poor Juno of that aggravation of guilt which the lawyers call a claustrum fregit, and which makes the distinction between burglary and privately stealing."