Nervous system & sense organs
Postcentral sulcus
Sulcus postcentralis
- System
- Nervous system & sense organs
- Regions
- Head
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Parietal lobe
DescriptionUnreviewed
The postcentral sulcus of the parietal lobe lies parallel to, and behind, the central sulcus in the human brain.
(A sulcus is one of the prominent grooves on the surface of the brain.)
The postcentral sulcus divides the postcentral gyrus from the remainder of the parietal lobe.
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Names
- Latin
- Sulcus postcentralis
- English
- Postcentral sulcus
- French
- Sillon postcentral
- Spanish
- Surco poscentral
- Portuguese
- Sulco pós-central