gyrus cinguli

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscingulate gyrus

   Broaderneural structure

   Part oflimbic system

Questions about gyrus cinguli

What does gyrus cinguli mean?

gyrus cinguli 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 gyrus cinguli?

Close synonyms include cingulate gyrus. 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 cinguli a common word?

gyrus cinguli 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.