Pericalcarine

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Surrounding the calcar of the brain not-comparable

    "The thalamus seed mask used in this study corresponds to the Thalamus-Proper parcellation in the Desikan-Killiany Atlas while the visual cortex target mask was obtained by merging the pericalcarine, cuneus, lateraloccipital, lingual and precuneus parcellations."

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"The thalamus seed mask used in this study corresponds to the Thalamus-Proper parcellation in the Desikan-Killiany Atlas while the visual cortex target mask was obtained by merging the pericalcarine, cuneus, lateraloccipital, lingual and precuneus parcellations."

Etymology

From peri- + calcarine.

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