▪ I. ‖ cingular, n.
[See sanglier.]
‘A wild boar in its fifth year. Howell.’ (Halliwell.)
▪ II. cingular, a.
(ˈsɪŋgjuːlə(r))
[f. cingulum + -ar1.]
Of or belonging to a cingulum; = next.
| 1904 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. Mar. 204 The development of a distinct cingular cuspule internal to the main antero-internal cusp. 1933 Jrnl. Anat. LXVII. 225 Following lesions in the cingular cortex of the cat and the rat, we have found cellular atrophy in the anterior nucleus. 1963 H. C. Elliott Textbk. Neuroanat. xxi. 327/2 The cingulum..runs under the surface of the cingular and hippocampal gyri. |