insula
Americannoun
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insulae
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of insula
1825–35; < New Latin, Latin: island; cf. isle
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But we also have the insula, which processes risk, including the risk of social ostracization—to which the parietal cortex makes us extremely sensitive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
The DMN and the posterior insula are involved in how people sense their body, the sense of self and their internal reflections.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024
As the insula is further revealed, scaffolding is being put up around what remains of the buildings to make protective roofing.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2023
Having higher self-reported IU or greater activity in a brain area called the anterior insula during imaging independently predicted an increase in anxiety, depression or emotional distress.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 14, 2022
It occupies the southernmost portion of an insula extending backwards to the city walls.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
In large cities, many lived in insulae, apartment complexes of three to four levels that occupied a rectangular city block.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
The exhibition’s leitmotif is the domus, the single- family home, as opposed to the insulae, the multistory apartment buildings that dominated imperial Rome.
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 30, 2011
In most of these it is accompanied by the smaller and equally legendary islands of Royllo, St Atanagio, and Tanmar, the whole group being classified as insulae de novo repertae, “newly discovered islands.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
We saw that the poorer classes in Rome were lodged in huge insulae, and enjoyed nothing that can be called home life.
From Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by W. Warde Fowler
It is more than likely that many of the insulae were badly built by speculators, and liable to collapse.
From Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by W. Warde Fowler
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