Anatomy
somatosensory cortex
so·mat·o·sen·so·ry cor·tex
Subclass of:
Sensorimotor Cortex;
Parietal Lobe
Definitions related to somatosensory cortex:
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Area of the parietal lobe concerned with receiving sensations such as movement, pain, pressure, position, temperature, touch, and vibration. It lies posterior to the central sulcus.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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(somesthetic sensory cortex) Region of the cerebral cortex receiving the somatic sensory radiation from the ventrobasal nucleus of the thalamus; it represents the primary cortical processing mechanism for sensory information originating at the body surfaces (touch) and in deeper tissues such as muscle, tendons, and joint capsules (position sense); it corresponds approximately to Brodmann's areas 1, 2, 3 on the postcentral gyrus.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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