Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form of a pear; pear-shaped.
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- adjective Alternative form of
pyriform .
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Examples
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Further study on rat brain revealed that Il1rapl was mainly expressed in memory/concentration-associated encephalic regions, such as hippocampus, dentate fascia, osmesis perithelium, and piriform cortex. mRNA expression levels of Il1rapl in brains of rats with different learning and memory abilities showed significant difference.
Archive 2008-05-01 Kosmo 2008
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Further down, the base of the tongue, the anterior surface of the epiglottis with the glossoepiglottic and pharyngoepiglottic folds bounding the valleculæ, and the piriform sinuses, are readily distinguished.
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This similarity is unlikely to be an effect of the steroid structure, considering that smelling of AND (and also EST) was found to elicit a dual pattern of activation recruiting primarily the hypothalamus or the olfactory regions (the amygdala, piriform and insular cortex), depending of the sex and sexual orientation of the smeller
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ivanka Savic et al. 2010
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Edd Twilbeck: Freeware offerings from piriform have always been top notch in my book, and this great little app is no different.
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The OO cluster is located in the amygdala and piriform cortex.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ivanka Savic et al. 2010
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- Updated all internal URL references to piriform. com.
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Another good freeware product is Piriform's Defraggler, available at www. piriform.com.
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Recent evidence indicates that the identification, categorization and discrimination of olfactory stimuli rely on the formation and modulation of odour objects in the piriform cortex.
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B (1998) Voltage imaging of epileptiform activity in slices from rat piriform cortex: onset and propagation.
PLoS Biology: New Articles Marta Gómez-Gonzalo et al. 2010
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Convergent findings from human and rodent models suggest that distributed piriform ensemble patterns of olfactory qualities and categories are crucial for maintaining the perceptual constancy of ecologically inconstant stimuli.
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biocon commented on the word piriform
See pyriform.
December 4, 2011