occipital cortex

Questions about occipital cortex

What does occipital cortex mean?

occipital cortex means "that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying in the back of the head".

What is another word for occipital cortex?

Close synonyms include occipital 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 occipital cortex a common word?

occipital 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.