"somatotopy" meaning in English

See somatotopy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: somatotopies [plural]
Etymology: From somato- + -topy. Etymology templates: {{confix|en|somato|topy}} somato- + -topy Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} somatotopy (usually uncountable, plural somatotopies)
  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. Tags: uncountable, usually Related terms: somatotopic

Inflected forms

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