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somatotopy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
so-ma-to-topy
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Uncountable

Etymology

From somato- + -topy.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

somatotopies (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

somatotopic

Questions

What does somatotopy mean?
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.
Where does somatotopy come from?
From somato- + -topy.

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