Rhinencephalon

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Rhinencephalon
Scheme of rhinencephalon
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Latin	rhinencephalon
NeuroNames	2078
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy [edit on Wikidata]

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 and is rudimentary in the human brain.^{[citation needed]}