Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

suprasylvian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: supra-syl-vian
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Superior to the sylvian fissure

Example Sentences

"Our experiments on behaving cats showed that enhanced beta activity may serve as an attention carrier in cortico-thalamic loops involving cortical areas 17 and 18, the medial suprasylvian cortex, and the first- and higher-order thalamic nuclei [4 ,6 ,12 ]."

Etymology

From supra- + sylvian.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: supra

Questions

What does suprasylvian mean?: Superior to the sylvian fissure
Where does suprasylvian come from?: From supra- + sylvian.

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