Home › Words › S › somatotopysomatotopysomatotopy means 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.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, somatotopy ranks #3,434 of 42,806 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom somato- + -topy.nounThe 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.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.somatotopic 78% match — Of or pertaining to somatotopy. vs somatotopy →somatotropically 63% match — In a somatotropic manner. vs somatotopy →somatognosic 61% match — Relating to a person's body image, or subjective idea of their own bodily form. vs somatotopy →laterotopy 61% match — The asymmetric projection of different parts of the body onto different sides of the brain vs somatotopy →somatosensitive 60% match — Relating to the reception of sensory stimuli within the brain vs somatotopy →somatotropism 59% match — A directive influence exercised by a mass of matter upon growing organs. vs somatotopy →somatotyping 58% match — The process of determining somatotypes. vs somatotopy →somatologic 58% match — Relating to somatology. vs somatotopy →