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collateral eminence(medicine)

hypostatize (iou) and collateral fissure (medicine)


hypostatize (iou)



hypostatize verb trans. Also hypostatise. E19.
[from Greek hupostatos: see HYPOSTATIC, -IZE.]
= HYPOSTASIZE.
hypostati'zation noun hypostasization L19.

collateral fissure (medicine)


collateral fissure -->
collateral sulcus


A long, deep sagittal fissure on the undersurface of the temporal lobe, marking the border between the fusiform gyrus laterally and the hippocampal and lingual gyri medially; the great depth of the collateral sulcus results in a bulging of the floor of the occipital and temporal horn of the lateral ventricle, the collateral eminence.

Synonym: sulcus collateralis, sulcus occipitotemporalis, collateral fissure, fissura collateralis, occipitotemporal sulcus.