See Also: Franco-Cantabrian school(encyclopedia)
Bichat's fissure(medicine)
Cantabrian(dictionary)
Cantabrian Mountains(encyclopedia)
Bichat's fat-pad(medicine)
Bichat(medicine)
Bichat's membrane(medicine)
Bichat's tunic(medicine)
Bichat's protuberance(medicine)
Bichat's canal(medicine)

Franco-Cantabrian school (sh) and Bichat's fissure (medicine)


Franco-Cantabrian school (sh)




Oldest and most complete of several artistic traditions of the Paleolithic Period that flourished in southwestern France and the Cantabrian Mountains of northern Spain งใ 40,000-10,000 BC.

It developed in huge limestone caves, such as Altamira and Lascaux Grotto, which served as ceremonial centres for ancient hunters. Inspired by magical-religious beliefs, the Art consists of large numbers of cave paintings of single, lively, unrelated animals, which may have been used in rituals invoking Success in the hunt and animal fertility. Small carved figurines incised with linear details have also been found.


Bichat's fissure (medicine)


Bichat's fissure


The nearly circular fissure corresponding to the medial margin of the cerebral (pallial) mantle, marking the hilus of the cerebral hemisphere, consisting of the callosomarginal fissure and choroidal fissure along the hippocampus, both of which are continuous with the stem of the fissure of Sylvius at the anterior extremity of the temporal lobe.