cingulate, a.
(ˈsɪŋgjuːlət)
[ad. mod.L. cingulatus, f. cingulum.]
a. Having a cingulum. b. Arch-shaped; used esp. of a gyrus on the medial surface of each cerebral hemisphere that partly encircles the corpus callosum, and of the sulcus that forms its outer boundary.
| 1826 Kirby & Spence Entomol. IV. xlvi. 291 Cingulate,..when the abdomen or the trunk is wholly surrounded by one or more belts of a different colour. 1916 Gray's Anat. (ed. 19) 800 The cingulate gyrus is an arch-shaped convolution, lying in close relation to the superficial surface of the corpus callosum. 1949 Buchanan's Man. Anat. (ed. 8) xiii. 1346 The curved gyrus between the cingulate sulcus and the corpus callosum is the cingulate gyrus. 1969 A. Brodal Neurol. Anat. (ed. 2) 650 It is customary to distinguish several long bundles. One is the cingulum, passing in the cingulate gyrus. |