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Definition of Corpus callosum
1. Noun. A broad transverse nerve tract connecting the two cerebral hemispheres.
Definition of Corpus callosum
1. Noun. In mammals, a broad band of nerve fibres that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Corpus callosum
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Literary usage of Corpus callosum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"The hemispheres should now be sliced off to a level with the corpus callosum,
when the white substance of that structure will be seen connecting the two ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1886)
"The anterior division, or corpus callosum, supplies the whole of the inner mantle.
... In connection with the corpus callosum is a bundle representing a ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"This area of gray matter is bounded internally and posteriorly by a fissure (fissura
prima) which separates it from the peduncle of the corpus callosum and ..."
4. A Text-book of Physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1907)
"The corpus callosum is the most conspicuous of the bands of commissural fibers
... The position and great development of the corpus callosum has made it the ..."
5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1911)
"What then is the function of the corpus callosum and how are we to ... The fibres
of the corpus callosum connect the two opposite sides of the brain. ..."
6. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"Dorsad of the cranial end of the fornix the corpus callosum (Fig. 143, p) passes
from one hemisphere to the other. Caudad of the pillars of the fornix, ..."
7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1884)
"THE corpus callosum.—Hamilton {Edinburgh Clinical and Pathological Journal, ...
H. states that the fibres of the corpus callosum, after they have arrived in ..."
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