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somatotopy

somatotopy noun: the correspondence between the position of a receptor in part of the body and the corresponding area of the cerebral cortex that is activated by it.

Noun

somatotopy (usually uncountable, plural somatotopies)

  1. (usually) The correspondence between the position of a receptor in part of the body and the corresponding area of the cerebral cortex that is activated by it.

Forms of somatotopy

pluralsomatotopies

Origin of somatotopy

From somato- + -topy.

Questions about somatotopy

What does somatotopy mean?
Somatotopy means the correspondence between the position of a receptor in part of the body and the corresponding area of the cerebral cortex that is activated by it.
What part of speech is somatotopy?
Somatotopy is a noun.
What is the plural of somatotopy?
The plural of somatotopy is somatotopies.

Words near somatotopy in the dictionary

  1. somatotonics
  2. somatotopic
  3. somatotopical
  4. somatotopically
  5. somatotopies
  6. somatotopy
  7. somatotrope
  8. somatotropes
  9. somatotroph
  10. somatotrophic
  11. somatotrophin

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