cerebral cortex

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Noun

cerebral cortex (plural cerebral cortices or cerebral cortexes)

1. (neuroanatomy) 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.

Synonyms

• pallium
• See also Wikisaurus:cerebral cortex

Meronyms

• neocortex
• archicortex
• paleocortex

Holonyms

• cerebrum

Translations

layer of the brain

Armenian: գլխուղեղի կեղև (hy) (glxuġeġi keġev) Chinese: Mandarin: 大脑皮质 (cmn) Czech: mozková kůra (cs) f. Danish: hjernebark (da) Finnish: aivokuori (fi) Greek: εγκεφαλικός φλοιός (el) (egkefalikós floiós) m.

Irish: coirtéis cheirbreach (ga) f. Japanese: 大脳皮質 (ja) Korean: 대뇌 피질 (ko) (daenoe pijil) Polish: kora mózgowa f. Russian: кора головного мозга (ru) f. Spanish: corteza cerebral (es) f., córtex cerebral (es) f.