transinsularadj.
/tranzˈɪnsjᵿlə/, /trɑːnzˈɪnsjᵿlə/, /transˈɪnsjᵿlə/, /trɑːnsˈɪnsjᵿlə/, U.S. /trænzˈɪns(j)ələr/, /træn(t)sˈɪns(j)ələr/ 1. Esp. of a road, railway, etc.: that crosses an island.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > island > [adjective] > crossing
transinsular1865
1865 Vancouver Island. Explor. 1864 (Vancouver Island Explor. Comm.) 25 The trail from Victoria to Comox crosses the Quall-e-hum River close to the coast, and an extension of this would form a transinsular road connecting the civilization of the east with the barbarism of the west coast.
1880 Evening Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 14 Sept. Now take the other or transinsular project—distinguished by me as the Newfoundland Railway.
1895 Cycl. Rev. Current Hist. (U.S.) 5 404 When the colony [sc. Newfoundland] would have to work its transinsular railway system.
1900 Engin. Mag. 19 684 Any trans-insular railroad project is chimerical.
1962 Daily News (St. John's, Newfoundland) 13 July 4/2 It desperately needs a paved transinsular highway to bolster its economy.
2018 Real Estate Monitor Worldwide (Nexis) 5 Mar. Road users in Savusavu will now have no trouble travelling along the transinsular road after major rehabilitation work was conducted.
2. Anatomy. That crosses the island of Reil (see Reil n.).
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the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [adjective] > fissure
subcentral1828
paracentral1878
Rolandic1878
transinsular1889
transtemporal1889
1889 B. G. Wilder in A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. VIII. 160/1 Normal, human subfissures are..the transinsular and others crossing the surface of the insula.
1911 J. F. Little Anat. (ed. 2) v. 324 The transinsular or central fissure divides this area into a larger preinsular and a smaller postinsular part.
1996 Jrnl. Clin. Neurosci. 1 240/2 Transplantation of adrenal medulla and omentum to the putamen by a transinsular pathway for Parkinson's disease.
2011 Neurol. Sci. 32 865/1 This study is to define the operative anatomy of the insula with emphasis on the transsylvian transinsular approach.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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