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pericalcarine

pericalcarine adjective: surrounding the calcar of the brain.

Adjective

pericalcarine (not comparable)

  1. Surrounding the calcar of the brain
    • The thalamus seed mask used in this study corresponds to the Thalamus-Proper parcellation in the Desikan-Killiany Atlas while the visual cortex target mask was obtained by merging the pericalcarine, cuneus, lateraloccipital, lingual and precuneus parcellations.2015 September 17, “Improved Framework for Tractography Reconstruction of the Optic Radiation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of pericalcarine

From peri- + calcarine.

Questions about pericalcarine

What does pericalcarine mean?
Pericalcarine means surrounding the calcar of the brain.
What part of speech is pericalcarine?
Pericalcarine is an adjective.

Words near pericalcarine in the dictionary

  1. peribullary
  2. peribullous
  3. peribunyavirus
  4. peribunyaviruses
  5. peribursal
  6. pericalcarine
  7. pericallosal
  8. pericalyceal
  9. pericam
  10. pericambia
  11. pericambial

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