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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