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Fissure vs Gyrus - What's the difference?

fissure | gyrus |

As a verb fissure

is .

As a noun gyrus is

(anatomy) a ridge or fold on the cerebral cortex.

fissure

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a crack or opening, as in a rock
  • Derived terms

    * fissure needle * fissure of Rolando * fissure of Sylvius * fissure vein

    Verb

    (fissur)
  • To split forming fissures.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    gyrus

    English

    (wikipedia gyrus)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (anatomy) A ridge or fold on the cerebral cortex.
  • Derived terms

    * cingulate gyrus * dentate gyrus * fornicate gyrus * frontal gyrus * fusiform gyrus * hippocampal gyrus * inferior frontal gyrus * infracalcarine gyrus * lingual gyrus * microgyria * middle frontal gyrus * occipital gyrus * occipitotemporal gyrus * parahippocampal gyrus * polygyria * polymicrogyria * postcentral gyrus * precentral gyrus * superior frontal gyrus * superior temporal gyrus * supramarginal gyrus * temporal gyrus * transverse temporal gyrus