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pericommissural

pericommissural adjective: around a commissure.

Adjective

pericommissural (not comparable)

  1. Around a commissure.
    • Accordingly, cocaine-induced reinstatement of responding was inhibited by baclofen+muscimol inactivation of the pericommissural core, whereas inactivation of the ventromedial shell enhanced it.2015 July 31, Gerald Zernig, Barbara S. Pinheiro, “Dyadic social interaction inhibits cocaine-conditioned place preference and the associated activation of the accumbens corridor”, in Behavioural...

Origin of pericommissural

From peri- + commissural.

Questions about pericommissural

What does pericommissural mean?
Pericommissural means around a commissure.
What part of speech is pericommissural?
Pericommissural is an adjective.

Words near pericommissural in the dictionary

  1. pericolorectal
  2. pericolpate
  3. pericolporate
  4. pericombobulation
  5. pericombobulations
  6. pericommissural
  7. periconception
  8. periconceptional
  9. periconceptionally
  10. periconceptual
  11. periconceptually

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