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What is a sulcus?

What is a sulcus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) A furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue.
  2. (anatomy) Any of the grooves that mark the convolutions of the surface of the brain.
  3. (planetology) A region of subparallel grooves or ditches formed by a geological process.
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The rhinal sulcus is not present as a separate sulcus in this specimen, but is represented as a direct continuation of the collateral sulcus.
No sulcus for a stapedial artery can be clearly identified on either specimen.
By the end of the sixth week, a shallow groove called the sulcus dorsalis separates the thalamus from the epithalamic swelling.
Above the splenium of the corpus callosum, the cingulate sulcus turns abruptly upwards to reach the superior margin of the hemisphere.
Another branch, the sulcus angularis, may be axial to the angular gyrus, and it may be continuous with the superior temporal sulcus.
The inferolateral boundaries extend downward and medially from the modioli to the mentolabial sulcus.

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