auditory area

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   the cortical area that receives auditory information from the medial geniculate body

   Synonymsauditory cortex

   Broadercortical area

Questions about auditory area

What does auditory area mean?

auditory area means "the cortical area that receives auditory information from the medial geniculate body".

What is another word for auditory area?

Close synonyms include auditory cortex. 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 auditory area a common word?

auditory area 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.