Anatomy
visual cortex Audio
vis·u·al cor·tex
Subclass of:
Sensorimotor Cortex; Occipital lobe
Definitions related to visual cortex:
  • Area of the OCCIPITAL LOBE concerned with the processing of visual information relayed via VISUAL PATHWAYS.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Area of the occiptal lobe of the cerebral cortex concerned with vision.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The part of the occipital lobe in the brain that processes visual stimuli.
    Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
    Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
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