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cin·gu·lum

 (sĭng′gyə-ləm)
n. pl. cin·gu·la (-lə) Biology
A girdlelike marking or structure, such as a band or ridge, on an animal.

[Latin, girdle, from cingere, to gird; see kenk- in Indo-European roots.]

cin′gu·late (-lĭt), cin′gu·la′ted (-lā′tĭd) adj.
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cingulum

(ˈsɪŋɡjʊləm)
n, pl -la (-lə)
(Anatomy) anatomy a girdle-like part, such as the ridge round the base of a tooth or the band of fibres connecting parts of the cerebrum
[C19: from Latin: belt, from cingere to gird]
cingulate, ˈcinguˌlated adj
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cin•gu•lum

(ˈsɪŋ gyə ləm)

n., pl. -la (-lə).
any feature that girds part of the body, as a band of muscle or ring of color.
[1835–45; < Latin: girdle, zone =cing-, s. of cingere to gird (see cincture) + -ulum -ule]
cin′gu•late (-lɪt, -ˌleɪt) cin′gu•lat`ed, cin′gu•lar, adj.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.cingulum - (anatomy) an encircling structure (as the ridge around the base of a tooth)
anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure - a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing; "he has good bone structure"
anatomy, general anatomy - the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals
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The premolar is bordered by a complete cingulum lingually, labial cingulum is lightly formed.
In this anomaly, a groove begins in the central fossa, extends across the cingulum, and extends gingivally with varying depths and distance.3
The only recovered third premolar is well preserved having a thin cingulum and a crenulated enamel layer (Fig.
The behavioral effects of direct electrical stimulation of the cingulum bundle, a white matter tract in the brain, were confirmed in two other epilepsy patients undergoing diagnostic monitoring.
Currently, in the management of the patients with TRMD, most of new treatment techniques (such as surgical approaches on the cingulum bundle and other brain regions, vagus nerve stimulation, deep brain stimulation, radiosurgery, MR-guided focused ultrasound etc.) are still in the advanced trial phase and the long term therapeutic effects are still under investigation (1).
A normal occlusion fulfill the requirements of aesthetics and of function with class I incisor relationship (lower incisor edges occlude with or lie immediately below the cingulum plateau of upper central incisors), subjects that had no previous orthodontic treatment, little or no incisor crowding, no skeletal abnormality, full dentition from second molar to second molar, No craniofacial malformation or syndromes, no history of trauma and whose both parents and grandparents are Saudis.
Ectophallus (Figs 3D-E, 4B-C, 5D-E, 6C-D).--The cingulum has a well-sclerotised zygoma, which bears short, curved cingular apodemes, giving a horseshoe shaped appearance in dorsal view (these are distinctly different from the longer, more orthogonally arranged apodemes of Serpusia--see below).
Follow-up MRIs taken 3 weeks later demonstrated lesions in a bilateral limbic distribution (medial temporal lobes, anterior cingulum, insula, hippocampus, hypothalamus, periventricular tectum), in the basal ganglia (Figure 1), and in the upper myelon.
[25] Yanhon Xia and colleagues also found correlation between the reduction of the FA values in the corpus callosum body, cingulum bundle, and upper left corona radiate and the cognitive function damage in research of first-episode AOS patients.
FKBP5 genotype and structural integrity of the posterior cingulum. Neuropsychopharmacology.
Therefore from the 116 regions of the brain identified using our registration technique, five regions in particular from each hemisphere were studied for the accumulation of glucose, namely, (1) anterior cingulum (right and left), (2) posterior cingulum (right and left), (3) inferior frontal gyrus/orbitofrontal (right and left), (4) precuneus (right and left), and (5) lateral temporal (right and left).