Definition of rhinal in English:
rhinal
adjective ˈrʌɪn(ə)lˈraɪnl
Anatomy Relating to the nose or the olfactory part of the brain.
Example sentencesExamples
- The rhinal sulcus is not present as a separate sulcus in this specimen, but is represented as a direct continuation of the collateral sulcus.
- However, this view has been challenged by the discovery that damage to a neighbouring region, the rhinal cortex, which underlies the hippocampus and amygdala, was necessary and sufficient to produce memory impairments.
- Previous studies had also traced the monkeys' ability to associate the visual cues with the reward to the rhinal cortex, which is rich in dopamine.
- He fashioned an agent that, when injected directly into the rhinal cortex of four trained monkeys, spawned a kind of decoy molecule which tricked cells there into turning-off D2 expression for several weeks.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Greek rhis, rhin- 'nose' + -al.