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Definition of Localisation of function
1. Noun. (physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body.
Generic synonyms: Principle, Rule
Specialized synonyms: Lateralisation, Laterality, Lateralization
Category relationships: Physiology
Lexicographical Neighbors of Localisation Of Function
Literary usage of Localisation of function
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Physiological Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt (1904)
"... an unification of functions ; so that any absolute localisation of function,
which should confine each separate activity within fixed limits, ..."
2. The Medical Times and Gazette (1874)
"... of Aylsham, " On Diphtheria "; and (8) Dr. Ferner, of London, " On the
Localisation of Function in the Brain, with special reference to Aphasia. ..."
3. Histological Studies on the Localisation of Cerebral Function by Alfred Walter Campbell (1905)
"And in continuation let me unreservedly grant, in reference to the process or
chain of events which ultimately leads to the final localisation of function, ..."
4. An Introduction to physiology by Augustus Désiré Waller (1893)
"In this qualified sense localisation of function in different parts of the brain
must be considered to be established. The chief facts by which the doctrine ..."
5. Transactions of the Pathological Society of London by Pathological Society of London (1902)
"Up to that epoch, experimentalists had failed to get evidence of localisation of
function in the cortex of the hemispheres, though in microscopic structure ..."
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