Definitions for gyrus

gyrus gy·rus

Spelling: [jahy-ruh s]
IPA: /ˈdʒaɪ rəs/

Gyrus is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in gyrus (grsuy).

Definitions for gyrus

noun

  1. a convolution, especially of the brain.

Origin of gyrus

1835-45; Latin gȳrus; see gyre

Examples for gyrus

Latin, gyrus, the ring in which colts are driven round by horse-breakers.

(404-359) and gyrus the Younger: the battle of Kunaxa and the retreat of the ten thousand .

Elsewhere c was k. Before the same vowels g was j (dʒ), as in genus, gibbus, gyrus.

gyrus, jī′rus, n. one of the rounded edges into which the surface of the cerebral hemisphere is divided by the fissures or sulci.

The calcarine fissure passed completely across the gyrus frontitatus on both sides in two cases, on one side in four cases.

Word Value for gyrus
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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