calcarine sulcus

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscalcarine fissure

   Broadersulcus

   Part ofoccipital lobe

Questions about calcarine sulcus

What does calcarine sulcus mean?

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

What is another word for calcarine sulcus?

Close synonyms include calcarine fissure. 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 sulcus a common word?

calcarine sulcus 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.