Word.ws English Dictionary

corticofugal

corticofugal adjective: describing a nerve fibre that originates in, and runs from, the cerebral cortex.

Adjective

corticofugal (not comparable)

  1. Describing a nerve fibre that originates in, and runs from, the cerebral cortex.

Antonyms of corticofugal

Origin of corticofugal

From cortico- + -fugal.

Questions about corticofugal

What does corticofugal mean?
Corticofugal means describing a nerve fibre that originates in, and runs from, the cerebral cortex.
What part of speech is corticofugal?
Corticofugal is an adjective.

Words near corticofugal in the dictionary

  1. corticocortical
  2. corticocortically
  3. corticocyte
  4. corticocytes
  5. corticoefferent
  6. corticofugal
  7. corticofugally
  8. corticogenesis
  9. corticogenic
  10. corticogeniculate
  11. corticogram

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: corticofugal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “corticofugal.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/corticofugal. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.