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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sulcus \Sul"cus\, n.; pl. Sulci. [L., a furrow.] A furrow; a groove; a fissure.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of sulcus English)
WordNet
n. (anatomy) any of the narrow grooves in an organ or tissue especially those that mark the convolutions on the surface of the brain
[also: sulci (pl)]
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Wikipedia
This article refers to Sulci the city. For the anatomical feature, see Sulcus (anatomy).
Sulci (in Greek , Steph. B., Ptol.; , Strabo; , Paus.), was one of the most considerable cities of ancient Sardinia, situated in the southwest corner of the island, on a small island, now called Isola di Sant'Antioco, which is, however, joined to the mainland by a narrow isthmus or neck of sand. South of this isthmus, between the island and the mainland, is an extensive bay, now called the Golfo di Palmas, which was known in ancient times as the Sulcitanus Portus (Ptol.).
Usage examples of "sulci".
There was some combination of water, water-soluble minerals, and temperature that triggered the cysts, and the combination had existed in Cyane Sulci, but no attempt to duplicate those conditions in a lab worked.
It is the most prominent of all the sulci, and is sometimes called the fissure of Sylvius, after the professional pseudonym of a i/th-century French anatomist who first described it.
In the Lycus and Cyane Sulci, spread across a broad band north of the old shield volcano Olympus Mons, canyons twist and shove across a thousand kilometers like the imprint of a nest of huge and restless worms.
During one memorable day away from my duties, he showed me a broad canyon in Cyane Sulci chosen for a major mother cyst experiment.
Melas Doras had none of the drama of the sulci, none of the color of Sinai, no fossils, no minerals .
The Cyane Sulci team had finished a larger test dome for the first big experiment with the intact mother cysts.
I picked up my slate and searched for a good picture and yes, there he was, smiling over a mother cyst at Cyane Sulci, and here on the day of our ceremony, uncomfortable in a formal suit.
The water boiled from the northern rapes, some of it coursing into the sulci, flooding the hundreds of kilometers in between to a depth of several meters.
My mother had just become President of Mars, under the New Republic Constitution, and she, my father, and I were making the pilgrimage across Cyane Sulci to Casseia's home, as had become traditional in the past few administrations.
She smiled, shook our hands, and invited us into her house, perched on the edge of the Cyane Sulci Preserve, where we removed our suits and showered and became comfortable.
The preserve stretched across a million hectares of the Sulci, impossible terrain for a tractor.
The ridges of cerebral tissue between the sulci, which look like softly rolled matter that has been flattened out slightly by the pressure of the skull, are called gyri (j'y'ry.
There is twice as much gray matter, that is, lining the various sulci and fissures as there is on the fiattish surface of the gyri.
Two particularly prominent sulci are the central sulcus and lateral sulcus, which occur, of course, in each of the cerebral hemispheres, (The cerebral hemispheres are mirror images as far as the details of structure are concerned.
She had cortical atrophy, widening of the cerebral sulci and loss of the parenchyma, the telltale hints of Alzheimer's.