gyrus

Other forms of gyrus

plural

gyri

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gyrus

What does gyrus mean?

gyrus means "a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain".

How many syllables are in gyrus?

gyrus has 2 syllables: gy-rus. The stress falls on "gy".

What is another word for gyrus?

Close synonyms include convolution. 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 gyrus a common word?

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.