Medical Dictionary
tonotopic
adj to·no·top·ic \ˌtō-nə-ˈtäp-ik\
Medical Definition of TONOTOPIC
: relating to or being the anatomic organization by which specific sound frequencies are received by specific receptors in the inner ear with nerve impulses traveling along selected pathways to specific sites in the brain
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