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Sulcation vs Sulcate - What's the difference?

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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

(en noun)
  • 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 , page 8 (Google preview):
    • 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.
  • * 1946 , Charles W. Gilmore, "Reptilian Fauna of the North Horn Formation of Central Utah", Professional Paper 210-C, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, p. 45 (Google preview):
    • [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.
  • (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 , page 146:
    • Lissencephaly refers to a diffusely smooth-surfaced cerebral hemisphere without sulcation .
  • * 2011 , Denise Pugash et al.'', "Fetal MRI of Normal Brain Development" in ''Fetal MRI , ISBN 9783540732716, p. 155 (Google preview):
    • 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.
  • * 2014 , Dario Paladini, Paolo Volpe, Ultrasound of Congenital Fetal Anomalies: Differential Diagnosis and Prognostic Indicators , page 66:
    • Gyration and sulcation occur during neuronal migration and continue until after birth.

    Related terms

    * sulcate (Webster 1913)

    sulcate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.

    • Related terms

    * sulcation ----