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cerebrocortex

cerebrocortex noun: cerebral cortex.

Noun

cerebrocortex (plural cerebrocortices)

  1. cerebral cortex
    • In the cerebrocortex, anoxia leads to suppression of spontaneous electrical activity (i.e., spike arrest) [11, 12 ], silencing of AMPA and NMDA receptors [13 –16 ], and large GABA releases during anoxia that activate an inhibitory postsynaptic shunt and prevent presynaptic glutamate release [17, 18...2015 July 6, “Transcriptomic Responses of the Heart and Brain to Anoxia in the Western Painted Turtle”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of cerebrocortex

pluralcerebrocortices

Origin of cerebrocortex

From cerebro- + cortex.

Questions about cerebrocortex

What does cerebrocortex mean?
Cerebrocortex means cerebral cortex.
What part of speech is cerebrocortex?
Cerebrocortex is a noun.
What is the plural of cerebrocortex?
The plural of cerebrocortex is cerebrocortices.

Words near cerebrocortex in the dictionary

  1. cerebrocardiovascular
  2. cerebrocerebellar
  3. cerebrocerebellum
  4. cerebrocirculation
  5. cerebrocirculatory
  6. cerebrocortex
  7. cerebrocortical
  8. cerebrocortices
  9. cerebrocostomandibular
  10. cerebrocranial
  11. cerebrocuprein

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