striate cortex

Questions about striate cortex

What does striate cortex mean?

striate cortex means "the part of the occipital cortex that receives the fibers of the optic radiation from the lateral geniculate body and is the primary receptive area for vision".

What is another word for striate cortex?

Close synonyms include striate area, first visual area, area 17 of Brodmann, Brodmann's area 17. 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 striate cortex a common word?

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