Anatomy
olfactory cortex
ol·fac·to·ry cor·tex
Subclass of:
Sensorimotor Cortex; Cerebrum
Definitions related to olfactory cortex:
  • Basal forebrain and medial part of temporal lobe areas that receive synaptic inputs from the OLFACTORY BULB.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (lateral olfactory area) Evolutionarily old area of olfactory system; composed of prepyriform and pyriform cortex plus the cortical portion of the amygdaloid nuclei; only area of cerebral cortex where sensory signals pass directly without first going through the thalamus.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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