Rhinencephalon
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| Latin | rhinencephalon |
| NeuroNames | 2078 |
| Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy | |
In animal anatomy, the rhinencephalon (from the Greek, ῥίς, rhis = "nose", and ἐγκέφαλος, enkephalos = "brain"), also called the smell-brain or olfactory brain, is a part of the brain involved with smell (i.e. olfaction). It forms the paleocortex in the human brain.