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VISUAL AREA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does visual area mean?
• VISUAL AREA (noun)
The noun VISUAL AREA has 1 sense:
1. the cortical area that receives information from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus
Familiarity information: VISUAL AREA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cortical area that receives information from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
visual area; visual cortex
Hypernyms ("visual area" is a kind of...):
cortical area; cortical region (any of various regions of the cerebral cortex)
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