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cerebral cortices

cerebral cortices is the plural of cerebral cortex.

Meaning of cerebral cortex

Noun

cerebral cortex (plural cerebral cortices or cerebral cortexes)

  1. 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

Questions about cerebral cortices

What is cerebral cortices the plural of?
Cerebral cortices is the plural of cerebral cortex.

Words near cerebral cortices in the dictionary

  1. cerebral artery
  2. cerebral blood flow
  3. cerebral blood flows
  4. cerebral cortex
  5. cerebral cortexes
  6. cerebral cortices
  7. cerebral crura
  8. cerebral crus
  9. cerebral edema
  10. cerebral edemas
  11. cerebral hemisphere

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