CALCARINE SULCUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calcarine sulcus mean? 

• CALCARINE SULCUS (noun)
  The noun CALCARINE SULCUS has 1 sense:

1. a sulcus in the mesial surface of the occipital lobe of the cerebrum

  Familiarity information: CALCARINE SULCUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALCARINE SULCUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sulcus in the mesial surface of the occipital lobe of the cerebrum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

calcarine fissure; calcarine sulcus

Hypernyms ("calcarine sulcus" is a kind of...):

sulcus ((anatomy) any of the narrow grooves in an organ or tissue especially those that mark the convolutions on the surface of the brain)

Holonyms ("calcarine sulcus" is a part of...):

occipital cortex; occipital lobe (that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying in the back of the head)

 Context examples 

An artery that branches from the medial occipital artery that aligns with the calcarine sulcus.

(Calcarine Artery, NCI Thesaurus)