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suprasylvian

suprasylvian adjective: superior to the sylvian fissure.

Adjective

suprasylvian (not comparable)

  1. Superior to the sylvian fissure
    • Our experiments on behaving cats showed that enhanced beta activity may serve as an attention carrier in cortico-thalamic loops involving cortical areas 17 and 18, the medial suprasylvian cortex, and the first- and higher-order thalamic nuclei [4 ,6 ,12 ].2016 January 6, “The Primary Visual Cortex Is Differentially Modulated by Stimulus-Driven and Top-Down Attention”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of suprasylvian

From supra- + sylvian.

Questions about suprasylvian

What does suprasylvian mean?
Suprasylvian means superior to the sylvian fissure.
What part of speech is suprasylvian?
Suprasylvian is an adjective.

Words near suprasylvian in the dictionary

  1. suprastructurally
  2. suprastructure
  3. suprastructures
  4. suprasubtle
  5. suprasyllabic
  6. suprasylvian
  7. suprasystemic
  8. suprasystolic
  9. supratarsal
  10. supratectal
  11. supratemperate

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