gyrus

Meaning of gyrus

noun

a ridge or fold between two clefts on the cerebral surface in the brain.

mid 19th century: from Latin, from Greek guros ‘a ring’.

Information about gyrus

It is a name.
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Hyphenation of gyrus

gyrus

It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
gyrus is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

gyrus synonyms

Meaning convolution:

Translation of gyrus

Spanish: circunvolución, giro
French: gyrus
Portuguese: giro

Anagrams of gyrus

Words that rhyme with gyrus

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