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juxtacortical

juxtacortical adjective: abutting the cortical layer of bone, as with juxtacortical chondroma.

Adjective

juxtacortical (not comparable)

  1. Abutting the cortical layer of bone, as with juxtacortical chondroma.
    Synonyms:
    periosteal
  2. Abutting the cerebral cortex (and thus involving subcortical U-fibers), as with juxtacortical white matter lesions in multiple sclerosis.

Synonyms of juxtacortical

Origin of juxtacortical

From juxta- + cortical.

Questions about juxtacortical

What does juxtacortical mean?
Juxtacortical means abutting the cortical layer of bone, as with juxtacortical chondroma.
What part of speech is juxtacortical?
Juxtacortical is an adjective.

Words near juxtacortical in the dictionary

  1. juxtacapsular
  2. juxtacellular
  3. juxtacellularly
  4. juxtacentromeric
  5. juxtacentromic
  6. juxtacortical
  7. juxtacrine
  8. juxtadomain
  9. juxtadomains
  10. juxtae
  11. juxtaepiphyseal

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