cortical area

1. 1.

   any of various regions of the cerebral cortex

   Synonymscortical region

   Broaderarea

   Narrowerassociation areaauditory areaBrodmann's arealanguage areamotor areasensoriumsensorimotor areavisual areastriate cortex

   Part ofcerebral cortex

Questions about cortical area

What does cortical area mean?

cortical area means "any of various regions of the cerebral cortex".

What is another word for cortical area?

Close synonyms include cortical region. 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 cortical area a common word?

cortical 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.