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transˈinsular, a.
[f. trans- 3 + L. insula island: cf. insular.]
1. Crossing or going across an, or the, island.
1895Buffalo Current Hist (N.Y.) V. 404 When the colony [Newfoundland] would have to work its transinsular railway system. 1900Engineering Mag. XIX. 684 Any trans-insular railroad project is chimerical.
2. Anat. Applied to a fissure of the brain that crosses the insula or island of Reil, and divides it into a cephalic and a caudal region.
1889Buck's Handbk. Med. Sc. VIII. 160/1 Normal, human subfissures are..the transinsular and others crossing the surface of the insula. |