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Definition of Excitable area

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

Medical Definition of Excitable area

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

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Literary usage of Excitable area

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

1. Handbook of Physiology by William Dobinson Halliburton (1913)
"The motor area extends also into the depth of the Rolandic and other fissures; the part of the excitable area thus hidden equals or may even exceed that on ..."

2. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1902)
"The excitable area extended not only to the.bottom of the sulcus centralis, ... Even the limitation of the excitable area in front of the sulcus centralis ..."

3. Handbook of Electricity in Medicine by Hyacinthe Guilleminot (1906)
"The question of inversion then resolves itself into this: is the stimulus at the pole produced by the active cathode in a hypo-excitable area, where the ..."

4. Mental Physiology: Especially in Its Relations to Mental Disorders by Theophilus Bulkeley Hyslop (1895)
"This non-excitable area has been divided into (1) the parts behind and below the excitable cortex, as well as the convolutions on the median surface of the ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"The hidden part of the excitable area probably equals, perhaps exceeds, in extent that contributing to the free surface of the hemisphere. ..."

6. The Journal of Mental Science by Royal Medico-psychological Association (1886)
"In this way the anterior two- thirds of the excitable area is occupied in the very definite order named by centres for the trunk muscles of the upper limb ..."

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