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Definition of Frontal cortex

1. Noun. That part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying directly behind the forehead.

Medical Definition of Frontal cortex

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)

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Literary usage of Frontal cortex

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1893)
"When a moderate excitation of the right frontal cortex had turned the right eye to the left and brought the left to the full median position, ..."

2. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"It is obtainable from the corona radiata underlying the frontal cortex after complete ablation of the frontal cortex itself. It is obtainable from the ..."

3. Mental Deficiency (amentia) by Alfred Frank Tredgold (1922)
"Fibre, Microscopical Sections of the frontal cortex in Dementia, Amentia, and the Normal (Semi-Diagrammatic, drawn by AF Tredgold). ..."

4. Histological Studies on the Localisation of Cerebral Function by Alfred Walter Campbell (1905)
"... it is possible in the case of the anthropoid ape to effect a subdivision of the frontal cortex on lines similar to those in the human being, ..."

5. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"Lapchak, PA; Beaudet, A. Cholinergic regulation of vasoactive intestinal peptide content and release in rat frontal cortex and hippocampus. ..."

6. The Newer Physiology in Surgical and General Practice by Arthur J. Rendle Short (1916)
"Localization of sensation in the cerebral cortex—Functions of the frontal cortex—Spasticity—Apraxia—Aphasia—Misleading localizing signs of cerebral ..."

7. Organic and functional nervous diseases: A Text-book of Neurology by Moses Allen Starr (1913)
"The Focal Symptoms of Tumors of the frontal cortex may be enumerated as ... While such irritation is limited to the frontal cortex we have no evidence of ..."

8. Anatomy of the brain and spinal cord with special reference to mechanism and by Harris Ellett Santee (1907)
"The pars frontalis of the internal capsule contains a motor tract which extends from the frontal cortex through the inner one-fifth of the basis ..."

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