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lingual gyrus

lingual gyrus noun: a tongue-shaped brain structure in the occipital lobe, crucial for processing visual information, especially related to faces, colors, and reading, helping form meaningful visual perceptions and memories.

lingual gyrus: a tongue-shaped brain structure in the occipital lobe, crucial for processing visual information,...
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Noun

lingual gyrus (plural lingual gyruses)

  1. A tongue-shaped brain structure in the occipital lobe, crucial for processing visual information, especially related to faces, colors, and reading, helping form meaningful visual perceptions and memories.

Forms of lingual gyrus

plurallingual gyruses

Questions about lingual gyrus

What does lingual gyrus mean?
Lingual gyrus means a tongue-shaped brain structure in the occipital lobe, crucial for processing visual information, especially related to faces, colors, and reading, helping form meaningful visual perceptions and memories.
What part of speech is lingual gyrus?
Lingual gyrus is a noun.
What is the plural of lingual gyrus?
The plural of lingual gyrus is lingual gyruses.

Words near lingual gyrus in the dictionary

  1. lingual
  2. lingual arteries
  3. lingual artery
  4. lingual bone
  5. lingual bones
  6. lingual gyrus
  7. lingual nerve
  8. lingual nerves
  9. lingual tonsil
  10. lingual tonsils
  11. linguales

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