MOTOR REGION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does motor region mean? 

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

1. the cortical area that influences motor movements

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOTOR REGION (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 region" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

A small bundle of ipsilateral neuronal fibers originating in the motor region of the cerebral cortex that descend down the spinal cord.

(Direct Pyramidal Tract, NCI Thesaurus)