The sulci and gyri are the grooves and ridges, respectively.
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Sulcus
//ˈsʌl.kəs//
Synonyms for "sulcus" (27 found)
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23 translations across 13 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- تَلَم noun (furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue)
- ثَلْم noun (groove on the surface of the brain)
Bulgarian
3 entries- бразда noun (furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue)
- вдлъбнатина noun (furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue)
- мозъчна гънка noun (groove on the surface of the brain)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 溝 /沟 noun (furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue)
Czech
3 entries- brázda noun (furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue)
- rýha noun (furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue)
- zářez noun (furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue)
Esperanto
1 entries- sulko noun (furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue)
Finnish
2 entries- aivouurre noun (groove on the surface of the brain)
- uurre noun (furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue)
German
1 entries- Furche noun (furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue)
Hungarian
3 entries- agybarázda noun (groove on the surface of the brain)
- barázda noun (furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue)
- barázda noun (groove on the surface of the brain)
Polish
2 entries- bruzda noun (furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue)
- bruzda noun (groove on the surface of the brain)
Portuguese
1 entries- sulco noun (groove on the surface of the brain)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- brázda noun (groove on the surface of the brain)
- бра́зда noun (groove on the surface of the brain)
Slovak
1 entries- ryha noun (furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue)
Spanish
1 entries- surco noun (groove on the surface of the brain)
Sample sentences
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The Union’s soft latex-polymer roof is cerebrally domed and a cloudy piamater pink except in spots where it’s eroded down to pasty gray, and everywhere textured, the bulging rooftop, with sulci and bulbous convolutions.
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The largest sulcus, the longitudinal fissure, divides the brain into left and right hemispheres.
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Unlike most other sulci, the lateral sulcus is very deep.
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