arcuate

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Connecting Broca’s area with Wernicke’s is a neural network: a thick, curving bundle of billions of nerve fibres, the arcuate fasciculus, which integrates the production and the comprehension of language.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

This is an image showing a 3D-printed reconstruction of the white matter pathway connecting two areas of the human brain - the arcuate fasciculus.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2017

The interlobar arteries, in turn, branch into arcuate arteries, cortical radiate arteries, and then into afferent arterioles.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The medial surface of the upper ilium forms the iliac fossa, with the arcuate line marking the inferior limit of this area.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Cap compact, convex or umbilicate, zoneless, minutely downy; margin reflexed, gills white, distant, arcuate; stem short, solid, pubescent; milk white, acrid, somewhat scanty.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas