Preferred Label : perirhinal cortex;
Uberon definition : Region of cortex near to the rhinal sulcus. It is defined differently in different
nomenclatures, due in part to the lack of agreement on the definition of the border
of this region. In the rat, the perirhinal cortex occupies only caudal levels of the
rhinal sulcus while in the monkey, it occurpies the full rostrocaudal extent of the
rhinal sulcus (Burwell et al., Hippocampus, 5: 390-408, 1995).;
Uberon synonym : perirhinal area;
Uberon related term : perihinal area; Brodmann's area 35;
Origin ID : 0006083;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
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Region of cortex near to the rhinal sulcus. It is defined differently in different
nomenclatures, due in part to the lack of agreement on the definition of the border
of this region. In the rat, the perirhinal cortex occupies only caudal levels of the
rhinal sulcus while in the monkey, it occurpies the full rostrocaudal extent of the
rhinal sulcus (Burwell et al., Hippocampus, 5: 390-408, 1995).
