Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

extrahippocampal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ex-trahip-pocam-pal
IPA

36

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Outside the hippocampus.

Example Sentences

"Engaging extrahippocampal memory systems renders the task ineffective for quantifying HPC-based memory impairments."

Etymology

From extra- + hippocampal.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: extra

Questions

What does extrahippocampal mean?: Outside the hippocampus.
Where does extrahippocampal come from?: From extra- + hippocampal.

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