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sulcus
[suhl-kuhs]
noun
plural
sulcia furrow or groove.
Anatomy.a groove or fissure, especially a fissure between two convolutions of the brain.
sulcus
/ ˈʌə /
noun
a linear groove, furrow, or slight depression
any of the narrow grooves on the surface of the brain that mark the cerebral convolutions Compare fissure
Other Word Forms
- subsulcus noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of sulcus1
Word History and Origins
Origin of sulcus1
Example Sentences
Soccer players who headed the ball at high levels showed abnormality of the brain's white matter adjacent to sulci, which are deep grooves in the brain's surface.
"You can think about the intraparietal sulcus as having two knobs on a radio dial: one that adjusts focusing and one that adjusts filtering," Ritz said.
One sticking point for several was whether it was possible to make any accurate judgement about brain structure based on the landmarks of the coronal suture and precentral sulcus.
He needed a sample from the superior frontal sulcus — but how big?
For novices, this region — which is called the occipitotemporal sulcus and often processes animal images — didn’t show a preference for pokémon.
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