Meanings
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relating to the lateral fissure or adjacent structures of the brain
The Sylvian fissure separates the temporal lobe from the frontal and parietal lobes.
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Etymology
From the Latinized surname Sylvius + -an. Anatomical expressions such as Sylvian fissure and Sylvian fossa commemorate the seventeenth-century physician and anatomist Franciscus Sylvius, also known as Franz de le Boe.