What Does Sulcal Mean

1. A deep, narrow furrow or groove, as in an organ or tissue. 2. Any of the narrow fissures separating adjacent convolutions of the brain.

Is a sulcus a hole?

Bone Markings (Table 7.2)MarkingDescriptionExampleSulcusGrooveSigmoid sulcus of the temporal bonesCanalPassage in boneAuditory canalFissureSlit through boneAuricular fissure

What is the difference between a sulcus and a groove?

is that groove is a long, narrow channel or depression; eg, such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression while sulcus is (anatomy) a furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue.

Alexander Ross

Alexander Ross

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