somatotopy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

somatotopy somatotopies

Etymology

From somato- + -topy.

Related words

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