Sulcation vs Sulcate - What's the difference?
sulcation | sulcate | Related terms |
A channel or furrow.
Markings resembling channels or furrows, especially in shells, fossils, etc.
* 1865 , (ed.), Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Volume 1 ,
* 1946 , Charles W. Gilmore, "Reptilian Fauna of the North Horn Formation of Central Utah", Professional Paper 210-C, U.S. Dept. of the Interior,
(neuroscience) The development of or resulting formations of sulci in a brain cortex.
* 2004 , Devin K. Binder, Helen E. Scharfman, Recent Advances in Epilepsy Research ,
* 2011 , Denise Pugash et al.'', "Fetal MRI of Normal Brain Development" in ''Fetal MRI , ISBN 9783540732716,
* 2014 , Dario Paladini, Paolo Volpe, Ultrasound of Congenital Fetal Anomalies: Differential Diagnosis and Prognostic Indicators ,
Having deep, narrow sulci, grooves or furrows.
* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.14:
*:The infant's ossature, the thin and brindled bones along whose sulcate facets clove old shreds of flesh and cerements of tattered swaddle.
Sulcation is a related term of sulcate.
As a noun sulcation
is a channel or furrow.As an adjective sulcate is
having deep, narrow sulci, grooves or furrows.sulcation
English
Noun
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- The ornamentation of the shell is a character of considerable palaeontological importance. . . . The types of ornamentation are two; longitudinal striation, and transverse sulcation conformable to the shape of the aperture.
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- [T]he presence of sulcation in the brow horns of all the Arrhinoceratops specimens known at the present time suggests a certain constancy in this genus.
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- Lissencephaly refers to a diffusely smooth-surfaced cerebral hemisphere without sulcation .
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- Since the appearance and development of sulci in the fetal brain follows a predictable pattern, the degree of sulcation may be used as an indicator of gestational age-related cortical development, both at autopsy and in vivo with fetal MRI.
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- Gyration and sulcation occur during neuronal migration and continue until after birth.