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MOTOR REGION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does motor region mean? 

MOTOR REGION (noun)
  The noun MOTOR REGION has 1 sense:

1. the cortical area that influences motor movementsplay

  Familiarity information: MOTOR REGION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MOTOR REGION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The cortical area that influences motor movements

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

excitable area; motor area; motor cortex; motor region; Rolando's area

Hypernyms ("motor region" is a kind of...):

cortical area; cortical region (any of various regions of the cerebral cortex)


 Context examples 


A small bundle of ipsilateral neuronal fibers originating in the motor region of the cerebral cortex that descend down the spinal cord.

(Direct Pyramidal Tract, NCI Thesaurus)



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