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lateral sulcus

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A sulcus that divides the frontal lobe and parietal lobe above from the temporal lobe below. It is in both hemispheres of the brain but is longer in the left hemisphere. The lateral sulcus is one of the earliest-developing sulci of the human brain. It first appears around the fourteenth gestational week[WP,modified]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_sulcus ]

Term info

Label

lateral sulcus

Synonyms
  • Sylvian fissure
  • Sylvian sulcus
  • fissura lateralis
  • fissura lateralis cerebri
  • fissura lateralis cerebri (sylvii)
  • fissura transversa cerebri
  • fissure of Sylvius
  • lateral cerebral fissure
  • lateral cerebral sulcus
  • lateral fissure
  • lateral fissure of Sylvius
  • sulcus lateralis
  • sulcus lateralis cerebri
  • transverse cerebral fissure
database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim

latin term
sulcus cerebri lateralis (Sylvii) [ NeuroNames : 49 ]

latin term
fissura transversa cerebri [ FMA : TA FMA : 77801 ]

abbreviation
LS [ NIFSTD : NeuroNames_abbrevSource BIRNLEX : 1487 ]

latin term
sulcus lateralis cerebri [ FMA : 77801 FMA : TA ]

depicted by

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/Lateral_sulcus2.png

has related synonym

sulcus cerebri lateralis (Sylvii)

id

UBERON:0002721