pericommissural

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English

Etymology

From peri- +‎ commissural.

Adjective

pericommissural (not comparable)

  1. (anatomy) Around a commissure.
    • 2015 July 31, Gerald Zernig, Barbara S. Pinheiro, “Dyadic social interaction inhibits cocaine-conditioned place preference and the associated activation of the accumbens corridor”, in Behavioural Pharmacology, volume 26, →DOI:
      Accordingly, cocaine-induced reinstatement of responding was inhibited by baclofen+muscimol inactivation of the pericommissural core, whereas inactivation of the ventromedial shell enhanced it.