precentral gyrus

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   the convolution of the frontal lobe that is bounded in back by the central sulcus and that contains the motor area

   Broadercentral gyrus

   Part offrontal lobe

Questions about precentral gyrus

What does precentral gyrus mean?

precentral gyrus means "the convolution of the frontal lobe that is bounded in back by the central sulcus and that contains the motor area".

Is precentral gyrus a common word?

precentral gyrus 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.