frontal cortex

What does frontal cortex mean?

frontal cortex means "that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying directly behind the forehead".

What is another word for frontal cortex?

Close synonyms include frontal lobe. 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 frontal cortex a common word?

frontal 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for frontal cortex come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.