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n. Any of the prominent, rounded, elevated convolutions on the surfaces of the cerebral hemispheres.

n. A ridge or fold on the cerebral cortex.

n. A convoluted ridge between grooves; a convolution. See brain.

n. In anatomy, one of the rounded ridges into which the surface of the cerebral hemisphere is divided by the fissures or sulci; a convolution; a gyre.

n. The gyrus which arches over the extremity of the fissure of Sylvius. See sulcus.

n. a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain

"A region of the brain known as the angular gyrus is partly responsible for the human ability to understand metaphor, according to research led by V.S. Ramachandran, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego."

gyrus lunaris    cuneate gyrus    ascending parietal gyrus    precentral gyrus    lingual gyrus    fusiform gyrus    sigmoid gyrus    angular gyrus    gyrus geniculi    internal gyrus   

gyri    brain   

fusiform gyrus    cingulate gyrus    dentate gyrus    fornicate gyrus   

cingulate    gyri    cortex    parietal    colliculus    hypothalamus    subcortical    commissure    convolution    thalamic