subcortical
adjEtymology From sub- + cortical.
1
Medicine, Sciences Of or pertaining to the subcortex, the portion of the brain located below the cerebral cortex
- He was diagnosed with subcortical dementia.
2
Beneath the bark of trees.
- More than two-thirds of the trees evidenced subcortical beetles, but no root decay fungi. The latter, without the former, were found in only 2 to 3 percent of the trees.1978, George Ferrell, Risk Rating Systems for Mature Red Fir and White Fir in Northern California, page 17:
- Derived terms
- corticosubcortical, frontosubcortical, subcortically