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▪ I. declive, n. Anat.|dɪˈklaɪv| [a. G. Declive (C. F. Burdach Baue u. Leben des Gehirns (1822) II. 59): cf. declive a.] A sloping part of the superior surface of the vermis of the cerebellum, posterior to the culmen and anterior to the folium.
1889in Cent. Dict. 1893H. St. J. Brooks in H. Morris Human Anat. v. 754 The declive connects the posterior crescentic portions, and consists of about six or seven transverse folia. 1912A. Robinson Cunningham's Man. Pract. Anat. (ed. 5) II. 530 Posterior to the central lobe is the monticulus, separable into two parts—an anterior elevated end, the culmen, and a posterior sloping ridge, the declive. 1975Developmental Med. & Child Neurol. XVII. vi. Suppl. No. 35. 21 The six main lobes of the cerebellum (the nodule, uvula, pyramid, declive, culmen and central lobes). 1980Gray's Anat. (ed. 36) vii. 912/2 The superior surface of the vermis is divided by short, deep fissures into the lingula, central lobule, culmen, declive and folium vermis in that anteroposterior order. ▪ II. † declive, a. Obs.|dɪˈklaɪv| [a. F. déclive (Paré 16th c. in Surg. sense), ad. L. dēclīvis sloping downward, f. de- I. 1 + clīv-us slope, hill.] Sloping downwards.
1635Swan Spec. M. vi. §2 (1643) 188 The waters coming down from the Caspian hills settling themselves in those declive and bottomie places where the said Sea is. 1644Digby Nat. Bodies xx. (1658) 228 An easier and more declive bed. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 284 Declive currents out of brooks. |