brodmann's area

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   one of the cortical areas mapped out on the basis of its cytoarchitecture

   Broadercortical area

Questions about brodmann's area

What does brodmann's area mean?

brodmann's area means "one of the cortical areas mapped out on the basis of its cytoarchitecture".

Is brodmann's area a common word?

brodmann's 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.