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paratrigeminal

paratrigeminal adjective: near the trigeminal nerve.

Adjective

paratrigeminal (not comparable)

  1. Near the trigeminal nerve
    • For example, the paratrigeminal respiratory group (pTRG) of lambreys brainstem is thought to play an important role in respiratory rhythm generation [68 –71 ].2015 July 6, “A Phox2b BAC Transgenic Rat Line Useful for Understanding Respiratory Rhythm Generator Neural Circuitry”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of paratrigeminal

From para- + trigeminal.

Words that rhyme with paratrigeminal

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Questions about paratrigeminal

What does paratrigeminal mean?
Paratrigeminal means near the trigeminal nerve.
What part of speech is paratrigeminal?
Paratrigeminal is an adjective.

Words near paratrigeminal in the dictionary

  1. paratransits
  2. paratriathlete
  3. paratriathletes
  4. paratriathlon
  5. paratriathlons
  6. paratrigeminal
  7. paratriploid
  8. paratrochlear
  9. paratroop
  10. paratrooped
  11. paratrooper

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