cerebral cortex
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[edit]Noun
[edit]cerebral cortex (plural cerebral cortices or cerebral cortexes)
- (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
[edit]- pallium
- See also Thesaurus:cerebral cortex
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[edit]Translations
[edit]layer of the brain
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