They are four bundles of long fibres which connect the different lobes of the cerebral hemisphere together.

These 4 bundles are = superior longitudinal + inferior longitudinal + cingulum + uncinate bundles

Yes, the scapular girdle is the same as the pectoral girdle, they both refers exactly to the same anatomical components. Please see Dorland's Medical Dictionary--both terms refers to the "cingulum pectorale."

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Tony Palomo

Roof shingles: scindolas, cindulis, or scandalis robusteis

Medical condition, shingles: cingulum (meaning belt or girdle, descriptive of the location of many outbreaks)

Scientific term for shingles-causing virus: varicella-zoster virus (vericella is from the Latin word "variola," meaning small pox). Shingles is not small pox, but a reactivated form of chicken pox.