calcarine fissure

1. 1.

   a sulcus in the mesial surface of the occipital lobe of the cerebrum

   Synonymscalcarine sulcus

   Broadersulcus

   Part ofoccipital lobe

Questions about calcarine fissure

What does calcarine fissure mean?

calcarine fissure means "a sulcus in the mesial surface of the occipital lobe of the cerebrum".

What is another word for calcarine fissure?

Close synonyms include calcarine sulcus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calcarine fissure a common word?

calcarine fissure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.