cerebral cortex

English

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.
   • 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:

     Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.

Synonyms

• pallium
• See also Thesaurus:cerebral cortex

Meronyms

• neocortex
• allocortex
  • archicortex
  • paleocortex

Holonyms

• cerebrum

Translations

layer of the brain

• Arabic: قشرة مخية
• Armenian: գլխուղեղի կեղև (hy) (glxuġeġi keġew)
• Asturian: corteya cerebral
• Basque: kortex zerebral
• Belarusian: кара вялікіх паўшар’яў f (kara vjalikix paŭšarʺjaŭ)
• Bulgarian: мозъчна кора f (mozǎčna kora)
• Catalan: escorça cerebral f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大腦皮質／大脑皮质 (zh) (dànǎo pízhì)

• Czech: mozková kůra f
• Danish: hjernebark (da)
• Dutch: hersenschors (nl) c
• Esperanto: kortekso
• Estonian: suurajukoor
• Finnish: aivokuori (fi)
• French: cortex cérébral (fr)
• German: Großhirnrinde f
• Greek: εγκεφαλικός φλοιός m (egkefalikós floiós)
• Hebrew: קליפת המוח (he)
• Hungarian: agykéreg (hu), nagyagykéreg
• Icelandic: heilabörkur m
• Irish: coirtéis cheirbreach f
• Italian: corteccia cerebrale (it) f
• Japanese: 大脳皮質 (dainōhishitsu)
• Kazakh: ми қыртысы (mi qyrtysy)
• Korean: 대뇌 피질 (daenoe pijil)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: tûkila mejiyê f

• Latin: cortex cerebri
• Lithuanian: galvos smegenų žievė
• Malay: korteks sereberum
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hjernebark m

  Nynorsk: hjernebork m

• Polish: kora mózgowa f, kora mózgu f
• Portuguese: córtex (pt) m
• Romanian: cortex cerebral (ro) n
• Russian: кора́ головно́го мо́зга f (korá golovnóvo mózga)
• Slovak: mozgová kôra f
• Slovene: možganska skorja f
• Spanish: corteza cerebral (es) f, córtex cerebral f
• Swedish: storhjärnsbark (sv), hjärnbark (sv)
• Thai: เปลือกสมอง (bplʉ̀ʉak-sà-mɔ̌ɔng)
• Turkish: serebral korteks
• Ukrainian: кора головного мозку f (kora holovnoho mozku)
• Vietnamese: vỏ đại não