单词 | prefrontal |
释义 | prefrontal (once / 59694 pages) adj Use the adjective prefrontal when you're talking about the very front part of the brain. Take care of your prefrontal cortex; it controls your personality. In an anatomy class, you'd gain a lot of information about the prefrontal cortex, since it's a vital section of the brain. The word prefrontal comes up in discussions of non-human animals as well, usually describing their brains, but sometimes in discussions of the skull, specifically the bones in front of a bird's or reptile's eye socket. Prefrontal combines pre-, "before," with frontal, "being in front," emphasizing the far forward location. WORD FAMILYfrontal: frontally, frontals, prefrontal+/forefront: forefronts/front: forefront, frontage, frontal, fronted, fronting, frontly, frontmost, fronts/frontage: frontages USAGE EXAMPLESJust like in humans, parts of their prefrontal cortex are devoted to social coordination. Time(Nov 08, 2016) But learning lives in the prefrontal too, which means the knowledge-hungry brain you had when you were young may stick around longer than you thought. Time(Nov 04, 2016) We have this shiny new prefrontal cortex and can use it to fight fear. Time(Oct 25, 2016) adj anterior to a frontal structure a prefrontal bone prefrontal lobes Syn anterior of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body |
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