cingulate gyrus

1. 1.

   a long curved structure on the medial surface of the cerebral hemispheres; the cortical part of the limbic system

   Synonymsgyrus cinguli

   Broaderneural structure

   Part oflimbic system

Questions about cingulate gyrus

What does cingulate gyrus mean?

cingulate gyrus means "a long curved structure on the medial surface of the cerebral hemispheres; the cortical part of the limbic system".

What is another word for cingulate gyrus?

Close synonyms include gyrus cinguli. 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 cingulate gyrus a common word?

cingulate gyrus 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.