striate cortex vs cortical area

striate cortex and cortical area both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
striate cortex	Yes	No	No	No
cortical area	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cortical area is a hypernym of striate cortex; that is, cortical area is a word with a broader meaning than striate cortex:

striate cortex: the part of the occipital cortex that receives the fibers of the optic radiation from the lateral geniculate body and is the primary receptive area for vision
cortical area: any of various regions of the cerebral cortex

Other hypernyms of striate cortex include cortical region.

striate cortex (noun)	cortical area (noun)
the part of the occipital cortex that receives the fibers of the optic radiation from the lateral geniculate body and is the primary receptive area for vision	any of various regions of the cerebral cortex