a. Anat. [ad. F. limbique (see quot. 1901), f. limbe, LIMB sb.2 + -ique, -IC.] Pertaining to, or having the character of, a border; in limbic lobe (of cerebrum), ‘term applied by Broca to the gyrus fornicatus and its prolongation, constituting the anterior part of the uncinate gyrus, because they are marked off in nearly all mammals from the surrounding convolutions’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.); also limbic fissure, the fissure surrounding this lobe.
1882. Quain’s Anat. (ed. 9), II. 341. The two ends of the limbic lobe of Broca, which are separated by the deep part of the Sylvian fissure.
1894. Gould, Illustr. Dict. Med., s.v. Fissure, Limbic Fissure (of Broca), the fissure surrounding Broca’s great limbic lobe. It includes the supercallosal, precuneal, and part of the collateral fissures.
1899. W. B. Lewis, Mental Dis. (ed. 2), 102. The limbic fissure, which here separates the lower limbic are from the extra-limbic mass.
1901. Gray’s Anat. (ed. 15), 631. The term limbic lobe (grande lobe limbique) was introduced by Broca in 1878, and under it he included two convolutions, viz. the callosal and hippocampal.
