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Definition of Convolutions
1. convolution [n] - See also: convolution
Lexicographical Neighbors of Convolutions
Literary usage of Convolutions
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)
"It is divided into three convolutions by two sulci. ... The arrangement of the
convolutions in this region is less complex : they are generally well defined ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1884)
"The frontal lobe, whose sulci are seen to run in a general antero-posterior
direction, has three prominent convolutions : the superior, middle, and inferior ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"These are distributed to the convolutions of the frontal and parietal lobes.
(/) Fibres Issuing from the external surface of the caudate nucleus, ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1884)
"As they can only be seen when the convolutions are sufficiently separated, ...
The knowledge of the localities where deep convolutions are usually found ..."
5. The Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man by Robert Bentley Todd, William Bowman (1857)
"When the convolutions are very highly developed, as in man and the elephant, ...
Henc« many of the primary convolutions in the human brain seem to take a ..."
6. A Treatise on Human Physiology by John Call Dalton (1882)
"This is accordingly a special transverse commissure for the convolutions situated
... By these commissural fibres the convolutions of each region of the ..."
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