cortical
adjUK /ˈkɔː.tɪ.kəl/ · US /ˈkɔɹ.tɪ.kəl/
Etymology From Latin cortex (“bark”), stem cortic-, + -al.
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Anatomy, Medicine, Sciences Pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.
- An adult male skeleton from Wharram Percy showed fine-grained subperiosteal deposits of new bone on multiple skeletal elements, together with fine cortical pitting[…].2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 27:
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