sulcus
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English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin sulcus (“a furrow made by a plow”). Doublet of sullow ("plough").
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sulcus (plural sulci)
- (anatomy) A furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue, especially that marking the convolutions of the surface of the brain.
- Synonym: fissure
- Hyponyms: central sulcus, cruciate sulcus, lateral sulcus
- Coordinate term: gyrus
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 186:
- The Union’s soft latex-polymer roof is cerebrally domed and a cloudy piamater pink except in spots where it’s eroded down to pasty gray, and everywhere textured, the bulging rooftop, with sulci and bulbous convolutions.
- 1999, Thomas C. Pritchard, Kevin D. Alloway, Medical Neuroscience[1], page 55:
- The largest sulcus, the longitudinal fissure, divides the brain into left and right hemispheres.
- 2006, Inderbir Singh, Textbook of Human Neuroanatomy[2], 7th edition, page 72:
- Unlike most other sulci, the lateral sulcus is very deep.
- (planetology) A region of subparallel grooves or ditches formed by a geological process.
Derived terms
[edit]- gluteal sulcus
- hemisulcus
- hyposulcus
- intermammary sulcus
- pseudosulcus
- sulcal
- sulcate
- sulciform
- sulcus cutis
Translations
[edit]furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue
groove on the surface of the brain
References
[edit]- “sulcus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “sulcus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *solkos, from Proto-Indo-European *solk-o-s (“furrow”), *selk- (“to pull, drag”), whence also Old English sulh. Doublet of holcus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsul.kus/, [ˈs̠ʊɫ̪kʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsul.kus/, [ˈsulkus]
Noun
[edit]sulcus m (genitive sulcī); second declension
- (agriculture) A furrow made by a plow.
- Synonym: fossa
- (transferred sense):
Inflection
[edit]Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sulcus | sulcī |
| Genitive | sulcī | sulcōrum |
| Dative | sulcō | sulcīs |
| Accusative | sulcum | sulcōs |
| Ablative | sulcō | sulcīs |
| Vocative | sulce | sulcī |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Descendants of sulcus
References
[edit]- “sulcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sulcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sulcus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- sulcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[4], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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