Definition of "gyrus" []

• Any of the prominent, rounded, elevated convolutions on the surfaces of the cerebral hemispheres. (noun)

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• "A region of the brain known as the angular gyrus is partly responsible for the human ability to understand metaphor, according to research led by V.S. Ramachandran, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego."
• "Such a pattern is reflected in the word's etymology: "girandole" can be traced back, by way of French and Italian, to the Latin word "gyrus," meaning "gyre" or "a circular or spiral motion or form.""
• "It also results from lesions interrupting the neural input to this left angular gyrus from the visual or calcarine cortical areas (1,"