rhinencephalon

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Noun

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rhi=nen=ceph=a=lon

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun rhinencephalon has 1 sense

rhinencephalon(n = noun.body) olfactory brain - a center in the cerebral hemispheres that governs the sense of smell in lower animals; in humans it seems to mediate complex emotional behavior; Array

is a kind of center, centre, nerve center, nerve centre

has parts: piriform area, piriform lobe, pyriform area, pyriform lobe, olfactory bulb

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CIDE DICTIONARY

rhinencephalon, n. [NL., fr. Gr. "ri`s, "rino`s, the nose + 'egke`falos the brain.].

The division of the brain in front of the prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise. [1913 Webster]

" The term is sometimes used for one of the olfactory lobes, the plural being used for the two taken together." [1913 Webster]

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