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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