occipital lobe

Noun occipital lobe has 1 sense

• occipital lobe(n = noun.body) occipital cortex - that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying in the back of the head;
has parts: calcarine fissure, calcarine sulcus, occipital gyrus, area 17 of brodmann, brodmann's area 17, first visual area, striate area, striate cortex
is a part of cerebral cortex, cerebral mantle, cortex, pallium
is a kind of lobe