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Definition of Calcarine

Calcarine
Calcarine Cal"ca*rine, a. (Anat.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the calcar of the brain.

Meaning of Calcarine from wikipedia

- The calcarine sulcus (or calcarine fissure) is an anatomical landmark located at the caudal end of the medial surface of the brain of humans and other...
- division) to the visual cortex (also called striate cortex) along the calcarine fissure. There is one set of upper and lower divisions on each side of...
- inferior temporal arteries Medial occipital, which branches into the: Calcarine sulcus, to the cuneus and lingual gyrus and the back part of the convex...
- Human V1 is located on the medial side of the occipital lobe within the calcarine sulcus; the full extent of V1 often continues onto the occipital pole...
- collateral and calcarine sulci. Incomplete sulci are superficially situated and are not very deep, E.g. paracentral sulcus. Calcarine sulcus Central sulcus...
- bounded anteriorly by the parieto-occipital sulcus and inferiorly by the calcarine sulcus. The cuneus (Brodmann area 17) receives visual information from...
- of the wall of the lateral ventricle's posterior cornu produced by the calcarine fissure. It is sometimes visible on ultrasonogram and can resemble a clot...
- posterior cerebral artery and middle cerebral artery. Occlusion of the calcarine artery that results in infarction of the superior part of the occipital...
- humans have shown that when the visual cortex is stimulated above the calcarine fissure, phosphenes are produced in the lower part of the visual field...
- field traverse Meyer's loop to terminate in the lingual gyrus below the calcarine fissure in the occipital lobe, and fibers carrying information from the...