Medical Dictionary

collateral sulcus

noun

Medical Definition of COLLATERAL SULCUS

:  a sulcus of the tentorial surface of the cerebrum lying below and external to the calcarine sulcus and causing an elevation on the floor of the lateral ventricle between the hippocampi—called also collateral fissure

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