parietal cortex

What does parietal cortex mean?

parietal cortex means "that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying below the crown of the head".

What is another word for parietal cortex?

Close synonyms include parietal 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 parietal cortex a common word?

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