somatotopic
adjective
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Medical Definition of somatotopic
: of, relating to, or mediating the orderly and specific relation between particular body regions (as a hand or the tongue) and corresponding motor areas of the brain
the somatotopic arrangement within the thalamus
Other Words from somatotopic
somatotopically
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