Crossword-Solution: GYRUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gyrus | n. | A convoluted ridge between grooves; a convolution; as, the gyri of the brain; the gyri of brain coral. See Brain. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GYRUS | anagram | SURGY |
We have 7 clues for the answer “GYRUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BRAIN-surface fold | 1 answer |
| Brain ridge | 1 answer |
| OUTWARD fold of the surface of the cerebral cortex | 1 answer |
| One of the ridges on brain surface. | 1 answer |
| convolution of brain surface | 1 answer |
| convolution | 9 answers |
| BRAIN, part of the | 23 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with GYRUS (5)
The lower half of the ascending frontal convolution, the greater half of the sigmoid gyrus, the posterior third of the lower and middle frontal convolutions, the base and posterior end of the upper convolution, and the base of the corresponding portion of the falciform lobe were involved.
Every principal gyrus and sulcus of a chimpanzee’s brain is clearly represented in that of a man, so that the terminology which applies to the one answers for the other.
Every principal gyrus and sulcus of a chimpanzee's brain is clearly represented in that of a man, so that the terminology which applies to the one answers for the other.
Xenophon, relying on his guides, calls the former place Larissa, the second Mespila.*** * This seems to be indicated by a mutilated passage in the _Cylinder of Gyrus_, where Assur is mentioned in the list of towns and countries whose inhabitants were sent back to their homes by Cyrus after the capture of Babylon.
The _gyrus temporalis superior_ is greatly reduced on both sides, and has an average breadth of only five millimetres; it is the one peculiarity that recalls emphatically the brain of the chimpanzee, which always has this reduced upper temporal convolution.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1948–1999).