Definitions for sulcus

sulcus sul·cus

Spelling: [suhl-kuh s]
IPA: /ˈsʌl kəs/

Sulcus is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in sulcus (clssuu).

Definitions for sulcus

noun

  1. a furrow or groove.
  2. Anatomy. a groove or fissure, especially a fissure between two convolutions of the brain.

Origin of sulcus

1655-65; Latin: furrow

Examples for sulcus

There is only one ciliated groove, the sulcus, in the stomodaeum.

A muscular ridge, called the crista terminalis, corresponding to the sulcus terminalis on the exterior.

It is then carried across the sulcus and is made to emerge through the opposite lip of the cervix.

The sulcus is a deep groove between heavy folds proximally and is a shallower furrow distally (Figure 4).

These grooves are known as the sulcus and sulculus, and will be more particularly described hereafter.

Each zooid has six tentacles; the stomodaeum is elongate, but the sulcus and sulculus are very feebly represented.

sulcus longitudinalis in superiore latere perforatus serie punctorum.

Median line with a sulcus on each side; central area quadrate.

The sulcus is bifurcate; the fork is near the base and almost gives the appearance of two sulci on some specimens.

Word Value for sulcus
Scrable

8

Words with friends

12

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