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temporoammonic

temporoammonic adjective: relating to or connecting the temple and the cornu ammonis.

Adjective

temporoammonic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to or connecting the temple and the cornu ammonis
    • Spatial information about the environment is transported from the grid, border, and head-direction cells located in the MEC to place cells in the hippocampus by the perforant path (PP) and temporoammonic path (TP).2014 September 16, Boaz Barak, Noa Feldman, Eitan Okun, “Cardiovascular Fitness and Cognitive Spatial Learning in Rodents and in Humans”, in The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences...

Origin of temporoammonic

From temporo- + ammonic.

Questions about temporoammonic

What does temporoammonic mean?
Temporoammonic means relating to or connecting the temple and the cornu ammonis.
What part of speech is temporoammonic?
Temporoammonic is an adjective.

Words near temporoammonic in the dictionary

  1. temporizing
  2. temporizingly
  3. temporizings
  4. temporo-
  5. temporo-occipital
  6. temporoammonic
  7. temporoauricular
  8. temporobasal
  9. temporoccipital
  10. temporocentral
  11. temporocerebellar

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