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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Noting those bodies which form the inner or mesal walls of the anterior portion of the lateral ventricles. They are well-developed in the reptilian and amphibian brains, and are connected across the median line by the lamina terminalis.

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  • Rhinencephalon designates the regions which are pre-eminently olfactory in function: the olfactory bulb, its peduncle, the tuberculum olfactorium and locus perforatus, the pyriform lobe, the paraterminal body, and the whole hippocampal formation.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

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