excitable area

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   the cortical area that influences motor movements

   Synonymsmotor areamotor regionmotor cortexRolando's area

   Broadercortical area

Questions about excitable area

What does excitable area mean?

excitable area means "the cortical area that influences motor movements".

What is another word for excitable area?

Close synonyms include motor area, motor region, motor cortex, Rolando's 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 excitable area a common word?

excitable 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.