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corticular

corticular is the alternative form of cortical.

Meaning of cortical

Adjective

cortical (not comparable)

  1. 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
  2. Pertaining to the cortex of a stem or root—the tissue that lies inward from the epidermis, but exterior to the vascular tissue.

Questions about corticular

What is corticular the alternative form of?
Corticular is the alternative form of cortical.

Words near corticular in the dictionary

  1. corticotropinomas
  2. corticotropins
  3. corticous
  4. corticovirus
  5. corticoviruses
  6. corticular
  7. Cortijo
  8. Cortijos
  9. cortile
  10. cortiles
  11. cortili

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