Definition of Limbic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or forming a limbus.

Partainyms: Limbus

Definition of Limbic

1. Adjective. Relating to the limbic system. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Limbic

1. pertaining to a system of the brain [adj]

Medical Definition of Limbic

1. Pertaining to a limbus or margin, forming a border around. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Limbic

limber pine
limber up
limbered
limberer
limberest
limbering
limberjack
limberjacks
limberly
limberneck
limberness
limbernesses
limbers
limbi
limbi palpebrales
limbic (current term)
limbic brain
limbic systems
limbier
limbiest
limbing
limbless
limblessly
limblessness
limbmeal
limbo
limbolike
limbos

Literary usage of Limbic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Histological Studies on the Localisation of Cerebral Function by Alfred Walter Campbell (1905)
"In reference to the remaining limbic cortex, as in Homo, it is readily ... On the homologies of fissures traversing or bounding the limbic area there is ..."

2. A Text-book of Mental Diseases: With Special Reference to the Pathological by William Bevan Lewis (1899)
"1, A) which represent the sub-frontal and sub-parietal segments of the limbic fissure, which is strongly marked in the brains of the pig and of the sheep ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The term limbic lobe (grande lobe limbique] was introduced by Broca in 1878, and under it he included two convolutions, viz., the callosal and hippocampal, ..."

4. Treatment for Stimulant Use Disorders edited by Richard A. Rawson, Rose M. Urban (2000)
"How Stimulants Affect the Brain and Behavior Figure 2-3 The limbic Reward System Cerebrum Brain Cells (neurons) dopamine release to frontal cortex VTA ..."

5. The Status of Efforts to Identify Persian Gulf War Syndrome edited by Christopher Shays (1999)
"13 The Role of the limbic System in Gulf Wai Disorder and Other Neuro- behavioral/Neuropsychiatric Problems Forced proliferation of white cells apparently ..."

6. Anatomy of the brain and spinal cord with special reference to mechanism and by Harris Ellett Santee (1907)
"It is continuous with the gyrus hippocampi of the limbic lobe in front. ... limbic Lobe (Lobus Limbus), Inferior Part.—The gyrus hippocampi of this lobe is ..."

7. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1896)
"NOTE TO DR ELLIOT SMITH'S PAPER ON THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE TRUE " limbic LOBE," &C.1 IN the part of this paper published in the October number, while thanking ..."

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