PARIETAL CORTEX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parietal cortex mean? 

• PARIETAL CORTEX (noun)
  The noun PARIETAL CORTEX has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PARIETAL CORTEX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARIETAL CORTEX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

parietal cortex; parietal lobe

Hypernyms ("parietal cortex" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "parietal cortex"):

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

postcentral gyrus (the convolution of parietal lobe that is bounded in front by the central sulcus)

Holonyms ("parietal cortex" 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 

Another brain region, the junction area between temporal and parietal cortex that has been related to the shielding of thoughts against irrelevant information, is less strongly connected to the rest of the brain network.

(Smart People Have Better Connected Brains, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)