auditory cortex

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

   Synonymsauditory area

   Broadercortical area

Questions about auditory cortex

What does auditory cortex mean?

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

What is another word for auditory cortex?

Close synonyms include auditory area. 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 cortex a common word?

auditory cortex 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.