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perirhinal

perirhinal adjective: situated around the nose.

Adjective

perirhinal (not comparable)

  1. Situated around the nose.
    • Prompted by this, neuroscientists have gradually narrowed down the search for the most vital of all memory organs to one principal structure, the perirhinal cortex.1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 229

Origin of perirhinal

From peri- + rhinal.

Questions about perirhinal

What does perirhinal mean?
Perirhinal means situated around the nose.
What part of speech is perirhinal?
Perirhinal is an adjective.

Words near perirhinal in the dictionary

  1. perirectal
  2. perirectally
  3. perirenal
  4. periretinal
  5. perirhabdomal
  6. perirhinal
  7. perirolandic
  8. perirural
  9. peris
  10. perisaccadic
  11. perisaccadically

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