occipital lobe

Questions about occipital lobe

What does occipital lobe mean?

occipital lobe 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 lobe?

Close synonyms include occipital 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 occipital lobe a common word?

occipital 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.