Transcortical

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Between the two parts of the cerebral cortex not-comparable

    "Because association fibers are compromised in the transcortical aphasias, Lichtheim (1885) called what we know as transcortical aphasia commissural dysphasia or white matter dysphasia."

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"Because association fibers are compromised in the transcortical aphasias, Lichtheim (1885) called what we know as transcortical aphasia commissural dysphasia or white matter dysphasia."

Etymology

From trans- + cortical.

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cerebral cortex

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