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Noun: piriform area
  1. Pear-shaped neural structure on either side of the brain in the rhinencephalon
    "The piriform area is involved in processing olfactory information";
    - pyriform area, pyriform lobe, piriform lobe

Derived forms: piriform areas

Type of: neural structure

Part of: olfactory brain, rhinencephalon