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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to the nose; nasal.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the nose; nasal; narial: as, the rhinal cavities (that is, the nasal passages).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Anat.) Og or pertaining to the nose or olfactory organs.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the nose; nasal
  • adjective Of or pertaining to those parts of the brain concerned with the sense of smell

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or in or relating to the nose

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Examples

  • With the emergence in mammalian brains of structures like the hippocampus and the rhinal cortex, which serve as "convergence zones, brain regions that integrate information across sensory modalities and create representations that are independent of the original modality through which the information was processed" (104), the capacity for explicit (though not necessarily conscious) memory that we normally think of as knowledge developed.

    Imagination vs. Art in Horror Film, Comics, and Literature, Pt. 2: From Memory to Imagination 2010

  • With the emergence in mammalian brains of structures like the hippocampus and the rhinal cortex, which serve as "convergence zones, brain regions that integrate information across sensory modalities and create representations that are independent of the original modality through which the information was processed" (104), the capacity for explicit (though not necessarily conscious) memory that we normally think of as knowledge developed.

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  • He, with his smooth, bald head, dark brown eyebrows, and neat goatee, might pass for the humblest of Bajoran vedeks, even without the rhinal ridges.

    String Theory, Book 3: Evolution Heather Jarman 2006

  • The rhinencephalon appears as a longitudinal elevation, with a corresponding internal furrow, on the under surface of the hemisphere close to the lamina terminalis; it is separated from the lateral surface of the hemisphere by a furrow, the external rhinal fissure, and is continuous behind with that part of the hemisphere, which will ultimately form the anterior end of the temporal lobe.

    IX. Neurology. 2. Development of the Nervous System 1918

  • The anterior rhinal fissure, which is present in the early human foetus, vanishes (almost, if not altogether) in the adult.

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

  • Hyperintense areas were identified in the neocortex, rhinal and piriform cortices, as well as in the hippocampus and anteromedial thalamus.

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  • Akimbo an hatless rhinal for usb wireless modem, arillate help marxist on magnanimity, dutifully than coast.

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  • Part of the posterior rhinal fissure is always present in the 'incisura temporalis,' and sometimes, especially in some of the non-European races, the whole of the posterior rhinal fissure is retained in that typical form which we find in the anthropoid apes. "

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

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