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central sulcus

noun

Anatomy.
  1. the sulcus separating the frontal and parietal lobes of the cerebrum.



central sulcus

noun

  1. a deep cleft in each hemisphere of the brain separating the frontal lobe from the parietal lobe

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Three of the Space Station astronauts in Roberts’s study had swelling of the optic disk, and all three of them had narrowing of the central sulcus.

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Heightened connectivity was also seen in the central sulcus of the brain, the primary sensory motor region of the brain.

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But since many more astronauts had central sulcus narrowing, that’s apparently a necessary but not sufficient cause of optic disk compression.

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