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Definition of Fissure of rolando

1. Noun. A brain fissure extending upward on the lateral surface of both hemispheres; separates the frontal and parietal lobes.

Medical Definition of Fissure of rolando

1. A double-S-shaped fissure extending obliquely upward and backward on the lateral surface of each cerebral hemisphere at the boundary between frontal and parietal lobes. Synonym: sulcus centralis, fissure of Rolando. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Fissure of rolando

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The external parieto-occipital fissure commences about midway between the posterior extremity or occipital pole of the brain and the fissure of Rolando, ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"It is bounded in front by the fissure of Rolando ; behind, by the external parieto-occip- ital fissure and a line drawn in ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1895)
"In the other experiment the portion of cortex removed was in the level of the inferior genn of the fissure of Rolando, between the fissure of Rolando and ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"This usually fairly constant sulcus commences in the ascending frontal convolution about midway between the fissure of Rolando and a line continued upward ..."

5. The Popular Science Monthly (1885)
"The fissure of Rolando separates the frontal lobe, F, from the rest of the ... Back of the fissure of Rolando is the external perpendicular fissure (E); ..."

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