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‖ rhinencephalon Anat.|raɪnɛnˈsɛfəlɒn| [f. Gr. ῥῑν-, ῥίς nose + encephalon.] The olfactory lobes of the brain. Hence rhinenceˈphalic a., pertaining to or consisting of the rhinencephalon.
1846R. Owen Hunterian Lect. II. viii. 181 A few of the medullary fibres..are continued forwards and outwards, as ‘rhinencephalic crura’. 1846Ibid. 184 The ‘rhinencephalon’ consists of two lobes of grey matter, which receive the prolongations of chiefly white fibres from the prosencephalon and its crura. 1851Carpenter Gen. & Comp. Phys. (ed. 3) Index, Rhinencephalon. Ibid. §320 i, These segments [of the skull] are named (proceeding from behind forwards) the Epencephalic, the Mesencephalic, the Prosencephalic, and the Rhinencephalic, according to the divisions of the brain to which they respectively correspond. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life 41 The optic lobes..are,..like the prosencephalon and rhinencephalon, paired. 1880Günther Fishes 86 Rhinencephalic arch, composed of vomer, prefrontal, and nasal. 1890, etc. [see pallium 3 d]. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 753 The great rhinencephalon of macrosmatic mammals. 1901Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. XXXV. 438 After Turner's memoir of 1890, the old term ‘rhinencephalon’ attained a much greater vogue. Ibid. 441 The German Anatomical Nomenclature Commission adopted the teaching of His in this matter in its entirety, and called his ‘lobus olfactorius’ the ‘rhinencephalon’, under the mistaken idea that it represented the region so-called by Turner. 1908,1921[see archipallium]. 1956Sci. Amer. Oct. 108/2 The test was performed on the animal with the electrode in the rhinencephalic nerve. 1978C. Reid Primer Human Neuroanat. xv. 141 The rhinencephalon refers to the olfactory part of the brain and the use of this term at the present state of knowledge is fraught with difficulties. |