sensorimotor area

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   an area of the cortex including the precentral gyrus and the postcentral gyrus and combining sensory and motor functions

   Synonymssensorimotor region

   Broadercortical area

Questions about sensorimotor area

What does sensorimotor area mean?

sensorimotor area means "an area of the cortex including the precentral gyrus and the postcentral gyrus and combining sensory and motor functions".

What is another word for sensorimotor area?

Close synonyms include sensorimotor region. 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 sensorimotor area a common word?

sensorimotor area 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.