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 | | Anteriorly the fissure is arrested by the recurved process of the upper part of the hippocampal gyros, called the uncus, and in front of this a slight sulcus, the incisura tern poralis, marks off the temporal pole or tip of the temporal lobe from the region of the uncus. |
 | | upper boundary of the hinder part of the Sylvian fissure; as this gyros occupies the hollow in the parietal bone, which corresponds to the eminence, it may appropriately be named the gyrus of the parietal eminence. |
 | | At the base of the brain, and opposite the fissures between the convolutions of the cerebrum, the interval between the arachnoid and the pia mater can, however, always be seen, for the arachnoid does not, like the pia mater, clothe the sides of the fissures, but passes directly across between the summits of adjacent convolutions. |
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