visual area

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   the cortical area that receives information from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus

   Synonymsvisual cortex

   Broadercortical area

Questions about visual area

What does visual area mean?

visual area means "the cortical area that receives information from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus".

What is another word for visual area?

Close synonyms include visual 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 visual area a common word?

visual 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.