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ectosylvian

ectosylvian adjective: outside the lateral sulcus of the brain.

Adjective

ectosylvian (not comparable)

  1. Outside the lateral sulcus of the brain
    • Rather, cortical areas surrounding the posterior ectosylvian sulcus responded preferentially to the IRN stimulus when compared to narrowband noise, with group analyses revealing bilateral activity centred in the posterior auditory field (PAF).2015 July 31, “High-Field Functional Imaging of Pitch Processing in Auditory Cortex of the Cat”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of ectosylvian

From ecto- + Sylvian.

Questions about ectosylvian

What does ectosylvian mean?
Ectosylvian means outside the lateral sulcus of the brain.
What part of speech is ectosylvian?
Ectosylvian is an adjective.

Words near ectosylvian in the dictionary

  1. ectostoses
  2. ectostosis
  3. ectostylid
  4. ectostylids
  5. ectosurgical
  6. ectosylvian
  7. ectosymbiont
  8. ectosymbiontic
  9. ectosymbionts
  10. ectosymbioses
  11. ectosymbiosis

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