cingulate

Any mammal of the order Cingulata, an armadillo.

Adjective

  1. Pertaining to a cingulum.
    • In the study, led by Ryota Kanai of the University College London, people who identified themselves as liberals generally had a larger anterior cingulate cortex — a comma-shaped region near the front of the brain that...

Origin

Etymology tree English cingulum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English cingulate From cingulum + -ate.

Synonyms

cingular cingulated

Derived

cingulate cortex cingulate gyrus cingulate sulcus frontocingulate midcingulate paracingulate thalamocingulate

Noun

  1. Any mammal of the order Cingulata, an armadillo.

Forms

cingulates