cerebral cortex
nounUK /ˈsɛ.ɹɪb.ɹəl ˈkɔːtɛks/ · US /səˈɹiː.bɹəl ˈkɔɹtɛks/
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Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroanatomy, Neurology, Neuroscience, Sciences The grey, folded, outermost layer of the cerebrum that is responsible for higher brain processes such as sensation, voluntary muscle movement, thought, reasoning, and memory.
- Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
- Synonyms
- pallium, cerebral cortex
- Holonyms
- cerebrum, telencephalon
- Meronyms
- neocortex, archicortex, paleocortex, allocortex