visual cortex

region of the brain that processes visual information
AnatomicalStructure class_of_anatomical_entity Q75785
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visual cortex

Summary

visual cortex is a class of anatomical entity[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of class_of_anatomical_entity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (495 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • visual cortex's image is recorded as Brodmann areas 17 18 19.png[3].
  • visual cortex's instance of is recorded as class of anatomical entity[4].
  • visual cortex's subclass of is recorded as region of cerebral cortex[5].
  • visual cortex's subclass of is recorded as particular anatomical entity[6].
  • visual cortex's part of is recorded as occipital lobe[7].
  • visual cortex's Commons category is recorded as Visual cortex[8].
  • visual cortex's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D014793[9].
  • visual cortex's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07zxn[10].
  • visual cortex's MeSH tree code is recorded as A08.186.211.200.885.287.500.571.735[11].
  • visual cortex's MeSH tree code is recorded as A08.186.211.200.885.287.500.814.953[12].
  • visual cortex's Interlex ID is recorded as nlx_143552[13].
  • visual cortex's Foundational Model of Anatomy ID is recorded as 242644[14].
  • visual cortex's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/visual-cortex[15].
  • visual cortex's UBERON ID is recorded as 0000411[16].
  • visual cortex's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0038446[17].
  • visual cortex's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0042817[18].
  • visual cortex's UMLS CUI is recorded as C5240034[19].
  • visual cortex's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as visual-cortex[20].
  • visual cortex's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779345533[21].
  • visual cortex's ICD-11 ID is recorded as XA5CF8[22].
  • visual cortex's ICD-11 ID is recorded as 1720999238[23].
  • visual cortex's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2779345533[24].
  • visual cortex's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2993054123[25].

Why It Matters

visual cortex ranks in the top 7% of class_of_anatomical_entity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (495 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . ncithesaurus.nci.nih.gov. ncithesaurus.nci.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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