vallecula
IPA: væɫˈɛkjuɫʌ
noun
- (anatomy, botany) A depression, channel or groove.
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Examples of "vallecula" in Sentences
- Vallecula is an anatomic term for a crevice, depression, or furrow in something.
- The under surface of the cerebellum (Fig. 703) presents, in the middle line, the inferior vermis, buried in the vallecula, and separated from the hemisphere on either side by a deep groove, the sulcus valleculæ.
- On the upper surface of the cerebellum the vermis is elevated above the level of the hemispheres, but on the under surface it is sunk almost out of sight in the bottom of a deep depression between them; this depression is called the vallecula cerebelli, and lodges the posterior part of the medulla oblongata.
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