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Medical Definition of Frontal area
1. Cortex of the frontal lobe of the cerebral hemisphere, originally, the entire cortical expanse anterior to the central sulcus, including the agranular motor and premotor cortex (Brodmann's areas 4 and 6), the dysgranular cortex (area 8), and the granular frontal (prefrontal) cortex anterior to the latter, now more often refers to the granular frontal (prefrontal) cortex. Synonym: frontal area. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frontal Area
Literary usage of Frontal area
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Functions of the Brain by David Ferrier (1886)
"The coronal suture (r) forms the posterior boundary of the frontal area. ...
We have thus an upper and a lower frontal area (grand IF) ; an upper ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"This frontal area yields on excitation conjugate movements of both eyeballs ...
It is supposed by some that this frontal area yielding eye-movements has its ..."
3. Histological Studies on the Localisation of Cerebral Function by Alfred Walter Campbell (1905)
"Now in the " frontal" area (text-figure 22) there is a still further reduction
in it. ... zone in the cortex of the frontal area at a magnification of if4. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1888)
"Of these parts, excitation of which produces this result (conjugate deviation of
the eyes to the opposite side), one, viz., the frontal area, ..."
5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1889)
"by the fact that its excision causes paralysis of the movement. From this fact
Ferrier concluded that in the case of the frontal area ..."
6. Psychology: General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1907)
"Frontal One area of the cerebrum which has been the subject of much speculative
discussion is the frontal area, or that portion of the cerebrum which lies ..."
7. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1877)
"frontal area triangular, very distinct; ocelli likewise very distinct, as is also
the ... Heed ut >*.«*• ., , .. . _,. . terior half. The frontal area ..."
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