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Definition of Opercular

Opercular
Opercular O*per"cu*lar, n. (Anat.) The principal opercular bone or operculum of fishes.

Meaning of Opercular from wikipedia

- Look up operculum or opercular in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Operculum may refer to: Operculum (brain), the part of the brain covering the insula...
- covering for the gills; it is also used for respiration and feeding. The opercular series contains four bone segments known as the preoperculum, suboperculum...
- ramus separates the opercular and triangular parts. The anterior (horizontal) ramus separates the triangular and orbital parts. Opercular part of inferior...
- Foix–Chavany–Marie syndrome (FCMS), also known as bilateral opercular syndrome, is a neuropathological disorder characterized by paralysis of the facial...
- and gaze, may be diminished, leading to poor social skills. The cingulo-opercular network (CO) has generally been equated with the salience network, but...
- of cerebral cortex. In the human it corresponds approximately to the opercular part of the inferior frontal gyrus. Thus, it is bounded caudally by the...
- divided into three parts – the orbital part, the triangular part and the opercular part. The frontal lobe contains most of the dopaminergic neurons in the...
- still present. Besides the opercular series, Acanthostega also lost the throat-covering bones (gular series). The opercular series and gular series combined...
- several bones and evolve lungs, fin bones, two pairs of rib bones, and opercular bones, and diverge into the actinopterygii (with ray fins) and the sarcopterygii...
- of the coelacanth are unique because the opercular bone is very small and holds a large soft-tissue opercular flap. A spiracular chamber is present, but...