OCCIPITAL LOBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does occipital lobe mean? 

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

1. that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying in the back of the head

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OCCIPITAL LOBE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

That part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying in the back of the head

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

occipital cortex; occipital lobe

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "occipital lobe"):

calcarine fissure; calcarine sulcus (a sulcus in the mesial surface of the occipital lobe of the cerebrum)

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

area 17 of Brodmann; Brodmann's area 17; first visual area; striate area; striate cortex (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)

Holonyms ("occipital 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 

An artery arising from the pericallosal artery that extends along the parieto-occipital sulcus to supply the medial and superolateral surfaces of the parietal lobe and sometimes the occipital lobe.

(Parieto-Occipital Artery, 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)

A gyrus or ridge in the occipital lobe of the brain between the superior and middle occipital sulci.

(Middle Occipital Convolution, NCI Thesaurus)

A group of veins that drain the infero-internal portion of the occipital lobe into the vein of Galen.

(Internal Occipital Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

The deep, one inch long portion of the parieto-occipital fissure, a groove, on the outer surface of the cerebral cortex midway between the occipital lobe and the fissure of Rolando.

(External Parieto-Occipital Fissure, NCI Thesaurus)

A gyrus or ridge in the occipital lobe of the brain below the middle occipital sulcus.

(Inferior Occipital Convolution, NCI Thesaurus)

A cerebral fissure that originates near the occipital lobe and terminates below the corpus callosum.

(Calcarine Sulcus, NCI Thesaurus)

A horizontal groove on the lateral surface of the occipital lobe extending from the accessory lateral occipital sulci to the lunate sulcus that separates the superior occipital gyrus from the inferior occipital gyrus.

(Lateral-Occipital Sulcus, NCI Thesaurus)