Usually means: Separates frontal and temporal lobes.
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  1. Sylvian fissure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Sylvian fissure: Vocabulary.com
  3. Sylvian fissure, sylvian fissure: Wiktionary
  4. sylvian fissure: Dictionary.com
  5. Sylvian fissure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Sylvian fissure: Rhymezone
  7. sylvian fissure: FreeDictionary.org
  8. sylvian fissure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. Sylvian fissure: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Sylvian fissure: Legal dictionary

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  1. Sylvian fissure: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. sylvian fissure: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Sylvian fissure: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. sylvian fissure: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Sylvian fissure)

noun:  (neuroanatomy) A fissure in the brain which divides the frontal lobe and parietal lobe above from the temporal lobe below.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of sylvian fissure [(neuroanatomy) A fissure in the brain which divides the frontal lobe and parietal lobe above from the temporal lobe below.]

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