rostral

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(II-XII) represent levels of the inferior olivary complex from caudal to rostral (Brodal and Brodal, 1981

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  1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a rostrum.
  2. In zoology: Of or pertaining to a rostrum in any sense; rostellar; rostriform.
  3. Having a rostrum or beak of this or that kind; rostrate: usually in composition with a qualifying epithet: as, lamellirostral, longirostral, fissirostral, conirostral, cultrirostral, curvirostral, rectirostral, dentirostral, recurvirostral, pressirostral, tenuirostral, serratirostral, etc. See the compounds. Thus for a day or two in the chick there are two “basi-temporal” and one rostral center. Nature, XXXVII. 501.

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  1. = French rostral = Spanish Portuguese rostral = Italian rostrale, from Late Latin rostralis, from Latin rostrum, a beak, snout: see rostrum.
 

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