SINCE 1828
dentate fissure
noun
variants:
or
dentate sulcus
Definition of dentate fissure
: a fissure of the mesial surface of each cerebral hemisphere extending from behind the posterior end of the corpus callosum forward and downward to the recurved part of the hippocampal convolution
— called also
hippocampal fissure
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