RHINENCEPHALON (rhinencephala)

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Irregular inflected form: rhinencephala   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does rhinencephalon mean? 

• RHINENCEPHALON (noun)
  The noun RHINENCEPHALON has 1 sense:

1. a center in the cerebral hemispheres that governs the sense of smell in lower animals; in humans it seems to mediate complex emotional behavior

  Familiarity information: RHINENCEPHALON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHINENCEPHALON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A center in the cerebral hemispheres that governs the sense of smell in lower animals; in humans it seems to mediate complex emotional behavior

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Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

olfactory brain; rhinencephalon

Hypernyms ("rhinencephalon" is a kind of...):

center; centre; nerve center; nerve centre (a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process)

Meronyms (parts of "rhinencephalon"):

piriform area; piriform lobe; pyriform area; pyriform lobe (pear-shaped neural structure on either side of the brain in the rhinencephalon)

olfactory bulb (one of two enlargements at the terminus of the olfactory nerve at the base of the brain just above the nasal cavities)