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paraolivary

paraolivary adjective: beyond the olivary body.

Adjective

paraolivary (not comparable)

  1. Beyond the olivary body
    • Using antibody stainings against excitatory and inhibitory presynaptic structures, namely the vesicular glutamate transporter VGluT1 and the glycine transporter GlyT2 we identified all major auditory brainstem nuclei except the superior paraolivary nucleus in these animals.2016 January 14, “Structural Changes and Lack of HCN1 Channels in the Binaural Auditory Brainstem of the Naked Mole-Rat ( Heterocephalus glaber )”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of paraolivary

From para- + olivary.

Questions about paraolivary

What does paraolivary mean?
Paraolivary means beyond the olivary body.
What part of speech is paraolivary?
Paraolivary is an adjective.

Words near paraolivary in the dictionary

  1. paraoccipital
  2. paraoccipital process
  3. paraoccipitals
  4. paraoccupational
  5. paraoesophageal
  6. paraolivary
  7. paraonid
  8. paraonids
  9. paraoperative
  10. paraophthalmic
  11. paraoptometric

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