RHINENCEPHALON

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: rhinencephala

Meaning:

A center in the cerebral hemispheres that governs the sense of smell in lower animals; in humans it seems to mediate complex emotional behavior

Synonyms:

olfactory brain; rhinencephalon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("rhinencephalon" is a kind of...):

center; centre; nerve center; nerve centre (a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process)

Meronyms (parts of "rhinencephalon"):

piriform area; piriform lobe; pyriform area; pyriform lobe (pear-shaped neural structure on either side of the brain in the rhinencephalon)

olfactory bulb (one of two enlargements at the terminus of the olfactory nerve at the base of the brain just above the nasal cavities)