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Definition of Motor area

1. Noun. The cortical area that influences motor movements.

Medical Definition of Motor area

1. Area of the frontal lobe concerned with primary motor control. It lies anterior to the central sulcus. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Motor Area

Literary usage of Motor area

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

1. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"Significance of the central position of the general motor area. ... 21 and 22, is that the general motor area occupies a relatively central position in the ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Lesions of the motor area of the Cortex Owing to the relatively large surface over which movements are represented in the cerebral cortex, only a very large ..."

3. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1911)
"In cases of hemiplegia in which the whole motor area of one side is included ... The motor area on each side may send down a double set of pyramidal fibers, ..."

4. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"This complexity is illustrated by the fact that after removing of a motor area not only purely voluntary but also reflex and other movements are for a ..."

5. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: designed for the use of by William Osler (1892)
"... motor, sensory, visual, and auditory areas ; also the sui the motor area into subareas for speech, the head and eyes, the face, arm, lej trunk. ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"It is found that when the motor area of the brain has been destroyed, the limb is i\ first paralysed for all these movements, but after a tune the U~b ..."

7. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"Just anterior to the Fissure of Rolando in the brain is located what is known as the great motor area. This motor area controls the motions of the leg, ..."

8. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"Significance of the central position of the general motor area. ... 21 and 22, is that the general motor area occupies a relatively central position in the ..."

9. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Lesions of the motor area of the Cortex Owing to the relatively large surface over which movements are represented in the cerebral cortex, only a very large ..."

10. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1911)
"In cases of hemiplegia in which the whole motor area of one side is included ... The motor area on each side may send down a double set of pyramidal fibers, ..."

11. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"This complexity is illustrated by the fact that after removing of a motor area not only purely voluntary but also reflex and other movements are for a ..."

12. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: designed for the use of by William Osler (1892)
"... motor, sensory, visual, and auditory areas ; also the sui the motor area into subareas for speech, the head and eyes, the face, arm, lej trunk. ..."

13. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"It is found that when the motor area of the brain has been destroyed, the limb is i\ first paralysed for all these movements, but after a tune the U~b ..."

14. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"Just anterior to the Fissure of Rolando in the brain is located what is known as the great motor area. This motor area controls the motions of the leg, ..."

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