It's a sign of (severe) cerebral atrophy. It's being seen on CT or/and MRI scans of the brain. Generalized sulcal prominence diffusely is consistent with diffuse brain atrophy.
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The cerebral does moderate generalized volume loss with prominence of the ventricles and cerebral cortical sulci. It refers to the brain volume loss.
loss of neurons
Well, honey, what you got there is some fancy talk for saying there's some mild shrinkage going on in the ol' brain. Those ventricles, fissures, and sulci are just spaces and grooves that are a bit more noticeable due to the brain losing a little volume. It's nothing to lose sleep over, just a natural part of aging for some folks.
The glenoid labrum is a fibrous ring that helps hold the upper arm bone (humerus) in the glenoid fossa; a shallow socket in the shoulder blade (scapula). The prominence inferior refers to the lower part of that ring. Usually when people talk about the glenoid labrum they are discussing a dislocated shoulder.
The noun cerebrum (thinking part of the brain) has the adjective form cerebral. This adjective can also mean "intellectual" rather than emotional.