parieto-occipital fissure

1. 1.

   a sulcus near the posterior end of each hemisphere that separates the parietal lobes and the occipital lobes in both hemispheres

   Synonymsparieto-occipital sulcus

   Broadersulcus

Questions about parieto-occipital fissure

What does parieto-occipital fissure mean?

parieto-occipital fissure means "a sulcus near the posterior end of each hemisphere that separates the parietal lobes and the occipital lobes in both hemispheres".

What is another word for parieto-occipital fissure?

Close synonyms include parieto-occipital 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 parieto-occipital fissure a common word?

parieto-occipital 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.