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cortex::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cerebral cortex, cerebral mantle, pallium |
| Type of | neural structure |
| Has types | neopallium, paleocortex, archipallium, neocortex |
| Derivation | cortical |
cortex::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | lens cortex |
| Type of | animal tissue |
cortex::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | animal tissue, plant tissue |
| Has types | adrenal cortex, renal cortex |
| Derivation | cortical |
Examples of cortex
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Cortex is testing one of its ampakines in a small study of Alzheimer's patients.
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The frontal cortex helps put the brakes on unhealthy behaviors, Volkow explains.
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The frontal cortex in his brain didn't sort out all the input for Jeff to focus.
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The thalamus serves as a relay station between the outside world and the cortex.
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The auditory cortex has a central role in the perception of sounds by the brain.
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We have always known that the parietal cortex was responsible for concentrating.
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Neuronal plasticity of the developing visual cortex has been well characterised.
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In area 18 of cat visual cortex, functional maps were organized at a fine scale.
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Perceptual learning reduces interneuronal correlations in macaque visual cortex.
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- Cerebral cortex: the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum
- The tissue forming the outer layer of an organ or structure in plant or animal
- Lens cortex: the tissue that surrounds the lens nucleus
- In anatomy and zoology the cortex (Latin: "bark", "rind", "shell" or "husk") is the outermost (or "superficial") layer of an organ. ...
- In lithic analysis in archaeology the cortex is the outer layer of rock formed on the exterior of raw materials by chemical and mechanical weathering processes. ...
- In botany, the cortex is the outer layer of the stem or root of a plant, bounded on the outside by the epidermis and on the inside by the endodermis. It is composed mostly of undifferentiated cells, usually large thin-walled parenchyma cells of the ground tissue system. ...
- The cortex of the hair shaft is located between the hair cuticle and medulla.James, William; Berger, Timothy; Elston, Dirk (2005) Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology (10th ed.). Saunders. Page 8. ISBN 0721629210.
- Cortex is a scientific journal published semimonthly by Elsevier. It is devoted to the study of "cognition and of the relationship between the nervous system and mental processes". The journal was founded in 1964 and is currently edited by Sergio Della Sala.
- The cerebral cortex is a sheet of neural tissue that is outermost to the cerebrum of the mammalian brain. It plays a key role in memory, attention, perceptual awareness, thought, language, and consciousness. ...
