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postcentral sulcus

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n.

The sulcus that demarcates the postcentral gyrus from the superior and inferior parietal lobules.

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Example sentences from the Web for postcentral sulcus

It is then carried across the sulcus and is made to emerge through the opposite lip of the cervix.
A System of Operative Surgery, Volume IV (of 4)|Various
Median line with a sulcus on each side; central area quadrate.
The Diatomaceae of Philadelphia and Vicinity|Charles Sumner Boyer
The single median sulcus on the anterior face of each incisor is typical of the genus Cratogeomys.
Pleistocene Pocket Gophers From San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico|Robert J. Russell
It is rather robust, very much recurved and grooved by a deep vertical sulcus upon its antero-internal face.
On The Affinities of Leptarctus primus of Leidy|J. L. Wortman

Sulcus longitudinalis in superiore latere perforatus serie punctorum.
The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4|Various

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