insula
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noun
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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
Legon's study, however, is the first to target the insula and show that focused ultrasound can reach deep into the brain to ease pain.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024
The insula is a part of the brain specifically involved in conscious awareness of your emotions, pain and bodily sensations.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2023
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
If this etymon be deemed unsatisfactory, they offer the following: from the Fr. isle, It. isola, Lat. insula, the word island, they say, is easily deflected.
From Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
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
Fronting north with westing, it is divided into squares, blocks, and insulae, after the fashion of a chessboard.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
These insulae were usually built or owned by men of capital, and were often called by the names of their owners.
From Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by Fowler, W. Warde
From each cochlear nerve a path has been traced which passes to the insulae and the above-mentioned temporal region of cortex of both the cerebral hemispheres.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
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