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parahippocampal

parahippocampal adjective: surrounding the hippocampus.

Adjective

parahippocampal (not comparable)

  1. Surrounding the hippocampus.
    • Another recent study found that in a delayed recognition working memory task, after affecting the functional connectivity between the PFC and the parahippocampal place area with a task designed to produce interference, older adults were unable to regain connectivity to preinterference levels...2016, Pierre Jolicoeur, Christine Lefebvre, Julio Martinez-Trujillo, Mechanisms of Sensory Working Memory, page 128

Origin of parahippocampal

From para- + hippocampal.

Words formed from parahippocampal

Phrases with parahippocampal

Questions about parahippocampal

What does parahippocampal mean?
Parahippocampal means surrounding the hippocampus.
What part of speech is parahippocampal?
Parahippocampal is an adjective.

Words near parahippocampal in the dictionary

  1. parahepatic
  2. paraherquamide
  3. paraherquamides
  4. parahexyl
  5. parahilar
  6. parahippocampal
  7. parahippocampal gyri
  8. parahippocampal gyrus
  9. parahippocampal gyruses
  10. parahippocampi
  11. parahippocampus

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