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... > Nervous System > Central Nervous System > Brain > Prosencephalon > Telencephalon > Cerebrum > Cerebral Cortex > Occipital Lobe > Visual Cortex > Primary Visual Cortex

Preferred term

Primary Visual Cortex  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Area 17, Brodmann
  • Area 17, Brodmann's
  • Area V1
  • Area V1, Cortical
  • Brodmann Area 17
  • Brodmann's Area 17
  • Brodmanns Area 17
  • Calcarine Cortex
  • Calcarine Cortices
  • Cortex, Calcarine
  • Cortex Primary, Visual
  • Cortex, Striate
  • Cortex V1, Visual
  • Cortical Area V1
  • Primary, Visual Cortex
  • Striate Cortex
  • V1, Area
  • V1, Cortical Area
  • V1, Visual Cortex
  • Visual Cortex Primary
  • Visual Cortex V1

Note

  • do not confuse entry term STRIATE CORTEX with CORPUS STRIATUM (basal ganglia)

Scope note

  • An area comprised of parts of OCCIPITAL LOBE and the CALCARINE SULCUS of the visual cortex in humans with direct connectivity to the LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS. It is the end organ where visual stimuli are received in the visual cortex.

History note

  • 2022(1979)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000087642

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