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Definition of Postcentral gyrus
1. Noun. The convolution of parietal lobe that is bounded in front by the central sulcus.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Postcentral Gyrus
Literary usage of Postcentral gyrus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Histological Studies on the Localisation of Cerebral Function by Alfred Walter Campbell (1905)
"Proceeding along the postcentral gyrus from above downwards there occurs a gradual
diminution in the size of the large pyramidal cells, and in the number of ..."
2. An Introduction to Neurology by Charles Judson Herrick (1918)
"That the postcentral gyrus is of different functional type from the precentral
gyrus is shown by the fact that motor projection fibers arise from the latter ..."
3. An Introduction to Neurology by Charles Judson Herrick (1922)
"That the postcentral gyrus is of different functional type from the precentral
gyrus is shown by the fact that motor projection fibers arise from the latter ..."
4. 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 (1914)
"The postcentral gyrus was then stimulated and the patient was able to localize
paresthesia ... Immediately opposite this spot, on the postcentral gyrus, ..."
5. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"... postcentral gyrus Central sulcus FIGURE 3-4 A left cerebral hemisphere and
cerebellum showing the distribution of the cerebral cortex of the frontal, ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"Not once in the experience of Professors Sherrington and Greenbaum were movements
obtained by excitation of the normal anthropoid postcentral gyrus, ..."
7. A Manual of Physiology: With Practical Exercises by George Neil Stewart (1918)
"It does not include the postcentral gyrus, for stimulation of this convolution
... The postcentral gyrus in man appears to be the seat of a similar sensory ..."
8. Collected Contributions from the State Board of Insanity and the State by Massachusetts State Board of Insanity, Boston State Hospital Psychopathic Dept (1916)
"SOUTHARD: THE ANALYSIS OF CORTICAL STIGMATA 15 of the so-called central area was
not a property of the postcentral gyrus, but was limited to the precentral ..."
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