somatotopy

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English

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Etymology

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From somato- +‎ -topy.

Noun

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somatotopy (usually uncountable, plural somatotopies)

  1. The correspondence between the position of a receptor in part of the body and the corresponding area of the cerebral cortex that is activated by it.
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