PARIETO-OCCIPITAL FISSURE
Dictionary entry overview: What does parieto-occipital fissure mean? • PARIETO-OCCIPITAL FISSURE (noun)
The noun PARIETO-OCCIPITAL FISSURE has 1 sense:
1. a sulcus near the posterior end of each hemisphere that separates the parietal lobes and the occipital lobes in both hemispheres
Familiarity information: PARIETO-OCCIPITAL FISSURE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PARIETO-OCCIPITAL FISSURE (noun)
Meaning:
A sulcus near the posterior end of each hemisphere that separates the parietal lobes and the occipital lobes in both hemispheres
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
parieto-occipital fissure; parieto-occipital sulcus
Hypernyms ("parieto-occipital fissure" 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)
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