Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pericalcarine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: per-i-cal-carine
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Surrounding the calcar of the brain

Example Sentences

"The thalamus seed mask used in this study corresponds to the Thalamus-Proper parcellation in the Desikan-Killiany Atlas while the visual cortex target mask was obtained by merging the pericalcarine, cuneus, lateraloccipital, lingual and precuneus parcellations."

Etymology

From peri- + calcarine.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: peri

Questions

What does pericalcarine mean?: Surrounding the calcar of the brain
Where does pericalcarine come from?: From peri- + calcarine.

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