"sulcus" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

referred to in: anatomy, general anatomy - the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals

is a type of: fissure - (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes
subtypes:
- central sulcus, fissure of rolando, rolando's fissure, sulcus centralis - a brain fissure extending upward on the lateral surface of both hemispheres; separates the frontal and parietal lobes
- fissure of sylvius, lateral cerebral sulcus, sulcus lateralis cerebri, sylvian fissure - the deepest and most prominent of the cortical fissures; separates the frontal lobes and temporal lobes in both hemispheres
- parieto-occipital fissure, parieto-occipital sulcus - a sulcus near the posterior end of each hemisphere that separates the parietal lobes and the occipital lobes in both hemispheres
- calcarine fissure, calcarine sulcus - a sulcus in the mesial surface of the occipital lobe of the cerebrum