PRECENTRAL GYRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does precentral gyrus mean? 

• PRECENTRAL GYRUS (noun)
  The noun PRECENTRAL GYRUS has 1 sense:

1. the convolution of the frontal lobe that is bounded in back by the central sulcus and that contains the motor area

  Familiarity information: PRECENTRAL GYRUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRECENTRAL GYRUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The convolution of the frontal lobe that is bounded in back by the central sulcus and that contains the motor area

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("precentral gyrus" is a kind of...):

central gyrus (either of two gyri on either side of the central sulcus)

Holonyms ("precentral gyrus" is a part of...):

frontal cortex; frontal lobe (that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying directly behind the forehead)