PARIETO-OCCIPITAL FISSURE

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 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)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sulcus near the posterior end of each hemisphere that separates the parietal lobes and the occipital lobes in both hemispheres

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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)

 Context examples 

The deep, one inch long portion of the parieto-occipital fissure, a groove, on the outer surface of the cerebral cortex midway between the occipital lobe and the fissure of Rolando.

(External Parieto-Occipital Fissure, NCI Thesaurus)

The longer vertical portion of the parieto-occipital fissure, a deep groove, on the medial surface of the cerebral cortex extending from the hippocampal gyrus and separating the precuneus and cuneus as well as the occipital and parietal lobes.

(Internal Parieto-Occipital Fissure, NCI Thesaurus)