somatotopy

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English word somatotopy comes from English -topy, English somato- ((medicine) body.)

-topy (English)

somato- (English)

(medicine) body.

somatotopy (English)

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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