See Also: pachygyria(medicine)

wichuraiana (iou) and pachygyria (medicine)


wichuraiana (iou)



wichuraiana noun. E20.
[mod. Latin (see below), from Max Ernst Wichura (1817-66), German botanist.]
Any of several rambling roses, usu. with small glossy leaves and clustered flowers, derived from Rosa wichuraiana, a prostrate evergreen rose of eastern Asia. Also more fully wichuraiana rose.

pachygyria (medicine)


pachygyria
Condition in which the convolutions of the cerebral cortex are abnormally large; there are fewer sulci than normal and in some cases the amount of brain substance is somewhat increased.

Synonym: macrogyria.

Origin: pachy-+ G. Gyros, circle