insula or insular cortex (island of Reil)

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Introduction

An oval region of the cerebral cortex overlying the extreme capsule, lateral to the lentiform nucleus, buried in the depth of the lateral (Sylvian) fissure.

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References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999