central sulcus

American  

noun

Anatomy.

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

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central sulcus British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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.

From Scientific American

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

From Washington Post

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

From Scientific American