area 17 of brodmann

Questions about area 17 of brodmann

What does area 17 of brodmann mean?

area 17 of brodmann means "the part of the occipital cortex that receives the fibers of the optic radiation from the lateral geniculate body and is the primary receptive area for vision".

What is another word for area 17 of brodmann?

Close synonyms include striate cortex, striate area, first visual area, Brodmann's area 17. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is area 17 of brodmann a common word?

area 17 of brodmann is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for area 17 of brodmann come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.