Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun parieto-occipital_sulcus

1 sense of parieto-occipital sulcus

Sense 1
parieto-occipital sulcus, parieto-occipital fissure -- (a sulcus near the posterior end of each hemisphere that separates the parietal lobes and the occipital lobes in both hemispheres)
       => sulcus -- ((anatomy) any of the narrow grooves in an organ or tissue especially those that mark the convolutions on the surface of the brain)