frontal lobe

What does frontal lobe mean?

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

What is another word for frontal lobe?

Close synonyms include frontal cortex. 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 lobe a common word?

frontal lobe 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 lobe come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.