: an opercular part (such as a bone or scale)
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Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2013
In the left fronto-opercular/anterior-insular cortex, negative sounds failed to show the positive potential component at around 260 ms that was observed during positive and especially during neutral sounds.
—Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2012
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Some people consider the salience network to be the same as another network, called the cingulo-opercular network — the new Neuron paper, for example, refers to them interchangeably.
—Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2013
In the left fronto-opercular/anterior-insular cortex, negative sounds failed to show the positive potential component at around 260 ms that was observed during positive and especially during neutral sounds.
—Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2012
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“Opercular.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/opercular. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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