See Also: piriform area(medicine)
piriform(medicine)
piriform cortex(medicine)
piriform sinus(medicine)
piriform recess(medicine)
piriform opening(medicine)
piriform muscle(medicine)
piriform fossa(medicine)
piriform neuron layer(medicine)
anterior piriform gyrus(medicine)

unbolt (iou) and piriform area (medicine)


unbolt (iou)



unbolt verb. L15.
[from UN-2 + BOLT verb2.]
verb intrans. Of a door: open or unfasten by having the bolt withdrawn. L15.
verb trans. & intrans. Draw back the bolt of (a door etc.); unfasten (a door etc.) in this way. L16.
B. Chatwin The..man unbolted..the immense baroque doors of the Church.

piriform area (medicine)


piriform area -->
piriform cortex


The olfactory cortex, corresponding to the rostral half of the uncus; receiving its major afferents from the olfactory bulb, it is classified as allocortex.

See: cerebral cortex.

Synonym: olfactory cortex, piriform area.