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Cerebral cortex

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Noun
  1. 1
    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.

    "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."

  2. 2
    the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum wordnet

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