MOTOR AREA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does motor area mean? 

• MOTOR AREA (noun)
  The noun MOTOR AREA has 1 sense:

1. the cortical area that influences motor movements

  Familiarity information: MOTOR AREA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOTOR AREA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cortical area that influences motor movements

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

excitable area; motor area; motor cortex; motor region; Rolando's area

Hypernyms ("motor area" is a kind of...):

cortical area; cortical region (any of various regions of the cerebral cortex)

 Context examples 

The whole motor area seems affected.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Through fMRI studies of other groups of women, the team found that infant cries activated similar brain regions in new and experienced mothers: the supplementary motor area, which is associated with the intention to move and speak; the inferior frontal regions, which are involved in the production of speech; and the superior temporal regions that are linked to sound processing.

(Study identifies brain patterns underlying mothers’ responses to infant cries, National Institutes of Health)

The wounds of the face was superficial; the real injury was a depressed fracture of the skull, extending right up through the motor area.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)