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rhinal, a.|ˈraɪnəl| [f. Gr. ῥῑν-, ῥίς + -al1.] Belonging to or connected with the nose.
1864in Webster. 1875Huxley in Encycl. Brit. I. 755/2 From the ventral face, just behind the truncated anterior end of the chondrocranium [of a frog's skull] spring two slender cartilages... These may be termed the rhinal processes. 1884M. Mackenzie Dis. Throat & Nose II. 252 The rhinal mirror should then be carried to the back of the throat. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 717 A rhinal or rhino-pharyngeal irritation.
Add:2. Neurol. Pertaining to or designating the regions of the brain concerned with the sense of smell; spec. designating the sulcus which separates the anterior region of the parahippocampal gyrus from the medial occipitotemporal gyrus.
1890W. Turner in Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. XXV. 106 The demarcation..is due to the presence of a fissure, more or less distinctly defined in different animals, which has been named the rhinal or ecto-rhinal fissure. 1958Gray's Anat. (ed. 32) 1031 The parahippocampal gyrus..is..bounded on its lateral side by the collateral and rhinal Sulci. 1975Brain Res. XCV. 1 All ventral temporal neocortical areas contribute some afferents to the transitional zones of periallocortex..forming the walls of the rhinal sulcus. 1987S. M. Stahl et al. Cognitive Neurochem. vi. 77 Does this imply that the memory function previously attributed to the hippocampus should correctly be attributed to the rhinal cortex? |