PARIETO-OCCIPITAL SULCUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parieto-occipital sulcus mean? 

• PARIETO-OCCIPITAL SULCUS (noun)
  The noun PARIETO-OCCIPITAL SULCUS 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 SULCUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARIETO-OCCIPITAL SULCUS (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

parieto-occipital fissure; parieto-occipital sulcus

Hypernyms ("parieto-occipital 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)

 Context examples 

An artery arising from the pericallosal artery that extends along the parieto-occipital sulcus to supply the medial and superolateral surfaces of the parietal lobe and sometimes the occipital lobe.

(Parieto-Occipital Artery, NCI Thesaurus)