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Frontal lobe   /frˈəntəl loʊb/   Listen
Frontal lobe

noun
1.
That part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying directly behind the forehead.  Synonym: frontal cortex.






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"Frontal lobe" Quotes from Famous Books



... in rank. The height of the orang's cerebrum in front is greater in proportion than in either the chimpanzee or the gorilla. "On comparing the brain of man with the brains of the orang, chimpanzee, and baboon, we find a successive decrease in the frontal lobe, and a successive and very great increase in the relative size of the occipital lobe. Concomitantly with this increase and decrease, certain folds of brain substance, called 'bridging convolutions,' which ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace



Words linked to "Frontal lobe" :   frontal cortex, pallium, cortex, precentral gyrus, frontal gyrus, cerebral cortex, cerebral mantle, lobe



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