parieto-occipital sulcus

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 fissure

   Broadersulcus

Questions about parieto-occipital sulcus

What does parieto-occipital sulcus mean?

parieto-occipital sulcus 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 sulcus?

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

parieto-occipital 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.