Longitudinal fissure

Longitudinal fissure
The human brain as viewed from above. Median longitudinal fissure visible in red, running top to bottom.
Longitudinal fissure shown in red (animation)
Details
Identifiers
Latinfissura longitudinalis cerebri, fissura cerebri longitudinalis
NeuroNames35
NeuroLex IDbirnlex_4041
TA98A14.1.09.007
TA25417
FMA83727
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

The longitudinal fissure (or cerebral fissure, great longitudinal fissure, median longitudinal fissure, interhemispheric fissure) is the deep groove that separates the two cerebral hemispheres of the vertebrate brain. Lying within it is a continuation of the dura mater (one of the meninges) called the falx cerebri.[1] The inner surfaces of the two hemispheres are convoluted by gyri and sulci just as is the outer surface of the brain.

  1. ^ "longitudinal fissure - Ontology Browser - Rat Genome Database". rgd.mcw.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-24.