Zygon

Quick meaning: Zygon is a noun meaning (anatomy, plural "zyga") In the cerebrum, a short crossbar fissure that connects the two pairs of branches of a larger zygal (H-shaped) fissure.

Meaning

(anatomy, plural "zyga") In the cerebrum, a short crossbar fissure that connects the two pairs of branches of a larger zygal (H-shaped) fissure.

More Meanings

1. (music, plural "zygons") An affinity or connection in a piece of music between tones, chords, or phrases, such that one part appears to repeat, to imitate, or to derive from the other, especially when perceived as an organising principle in the music; a zygonic relationship.

Example Sentences

I am falling apart, the delicate zygon of my brain is opened.

Zygonic relationships, or zygons, are depicted using the letter Z.

“The evidence is threefold: (1) as admitted by Ecker, the zygon always appears independently in the foetus;

Observe that the second melodic interval is deemed to exist in imitation of the first through the repetition of magnitude but not polarity through an "inverse" secondary zygon of pitch.

Word Forms

• zyga
• zygons

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include zygantrum, zygion, postzygapophysis, zygopophysis, jugum, zygoma.

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