FRONTAL LOBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frontal lobe mean? 

• FRONTAL LOBE (noun)
  The noun FRONTAL LOBE has 1 sense:

1. that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying directly behind the forehead

  Familiarity information: FRONTAL LOBE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRONTAL LOBE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

That part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying directly behind the forehead

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

frontal cortex; frontal lobe

Hypernyms ("frontal lobe" is a kind of...):

lobe ((anatomy) a somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part)

Meronyms (parts of "frontal lobe"):

frontal gyrus (any of the convolutions of the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum)

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

Holonyms ("frontal lobe" is a part of...):

cerebral cortex; cerebral mantle; cortex; pallium (the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum)

 Context examples 

A region of the brain located in the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere; it plays an essential role in the motor control of speech.

(Area of Broca, NCI Thesaurus)

One of the lobes of the cerebral hemisphere located superiorly to the occipital lobe and posteriorly to the frontal lobe.

(Parietal Lobe, NCI Thesaurus)

The findings also revealed that the frontal lobes were the brain region most likely to show microbleeds.

(Microbleeds may worsen outcome after head injury, National Institutes of Health)

The internal area of the skull that holds the frontal lobes.

(Anterior Cranial Fossa, NCI Thesaurus)

Marmosets are used to study brain disorders such as depression because of the similarity of the frontal lobes to those of humans.

(Marmoset study gives insights into loss of pleasure in depression, University of Cambridge)

Along the midline of the frontal lobe, where the left and right brain hemispheres meet, there is a wall of neural tissue known as the medial prefrontal cortex.

(Scientists identify possible source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the brain, University of Cambridge)

The central sulcus separates the primary somatosensory cortex from the primary motor cortex and the frontal lobe from the parietal lobe.

(Fissure of Rolando, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery branching from the extremity of the middle cerebral artery that supplies the lateral cortex and inferior frontal lobe.

(Lateral Orbitofrontal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

A gyrus on the outer surface of the left frontal lobe of the cerebrum located between the inferior frontal sulcus and the fissure of Sylvius that is involved in response inhibition.

(Left Inferior Frontal Convolution, NCI Thesaurus)

This condition is caused by lesions of the motor association cortex in the frontal lobe (Broca's area and adjacent cortical and white matter regions).

(Broca's Aphasia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)