brodmann's area 17

Questions about brodmann's area 17

What does brodmann's area 17 mean?

brodmann's area 17 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 brodmann's area 17?

Close synonyms include striate cortex, striate area, first visual area, area 17 of Brodmann. 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 brodmann's area 17 a common word?

brodmann's area 17 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 brodmann's area 17 come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.