Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating or named from the anatomist Jacques Dubois, Latinized Sylvius (1478–1555): specifically applied in anatomy to several parts.
- Of or pertaining to the genus Sylvia, or family Sylviidæ; being, related to, or resembling a member of the Sylviidæ; warbler-like. See warbler, Sylviidæ, Sylvicolidæ.
- noun One of the warblers; a member of the genus Sylvia or family Sylviidæ of the Old World, or
- noun of the family Mniotiltidæ of America. See these words, and warbler.
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I found the link about long island vs. whidbey island really interesting. also, I lost all respect for sylvian C.
BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2008
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Next day we buried him in the beautiful cemetery of Happy Valley, than which there are few more picturesque spots in China; 'twas surely a poetic fancy which inspired the Chinese with the term "_happy_" when naming this sylvian vale.
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith
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As Fanfulla awoke he beheld an apparition coming towards him, a figure lithe and stalwart as a sylvian god, the water shining on the ivory whiteness of his skin and glistening in his sable hair as the sunlight caught it.
Love-at-Arms Rafael Sabatini 1912
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But it is equally true, as Gratiolet remarks, that, in its widely open sylvian fissure, it differs from the brain of any actual marmoset.
Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes Charles Darwin 1845
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In this, and in the fourth month, the cerebral hemispheres are smooth and rounded (with the exception of the sylvian depression), and they project backwards far beyond the cerebellum.
Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes Charles Darwin 1845
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Arctopithecine or marmoset-like ape; for its hemispheres, with their great posterior lobster, and with no sulci but the sylvian and the calcarine, present the characteristics found only in the group of the
Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes Charles Darwin 1845
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Platyrrhini proper, the only observation with which I am acquainted is due to Pansch, who found in the brain of a foetal Cebus Apella, in addition to the sylvian fissure and the deep calcarine fissure, only a very shallow antero-temporal fissure (scissure parallele of Gratiolet).
Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes Charles Darwin 1845
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In the human foetus, the sylvian fissure is formed in the course of the third month of uterogestation.
Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes Charles Darwin 1845
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If stimulations of the superior temporal region were in the depth of the sylvian fissure, and toward the insula, stimulations induced pain or automatisms such as sudden movement, staring, unresponsiveness, plucking, or chewing.
Mind Hacks 2010
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Diagnosis of ruptures sylvian fissure dermoid was made
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