The cerebral cortex is the brain's outer layer.
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Cortex
//ˈkɔɹtɛks//
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32 translations across 24 languages.
Bashkir
1 entries- ҡабыҡ noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
Bulgarian
2 entries- кора noun (tissue of a stem or root)
- ципа noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
Catalan
1 entries- còrtex noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 皮质 noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
Czech
1 entries- kůra noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
Finnish
1 entries- kuori noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
French
2 entries- cortex noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
- cortex noun (tissue of a stem or root)
German
3 entries- Cortex noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
- Kortex noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
- Rinde noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
Greek
1 entries- φλοιός noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
Hungarian
2 entries- kéreg noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
- kéreg noun (tissue of a stem or root)
Ido
1 entries- kortico noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
Irish
1 entries- coirtéis noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
Khmer
1 entries- សំបក noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
Korean
1 entries- 피질 noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
Latin
1 entries- cortex noun (tissue of a stem or root)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- tûkil noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- bark noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- bork noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
Polish
2 entries- kora noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
- kora noun (tissue of a stem or root)
Portuguese
2 entries- córtex noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
- córtex noun (tissue of a stem or root)
Russian
1 entries- кора noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
Tagalog
1 entries- luknap noun (tissue of a stem or root)
Thai
1 entries- เปลือก noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
Welsh
2 entries- breithell noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
- gwisg noun (outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)
Sample sentences
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The cerebral cortex is made up of gray matter.
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He says when a person makes an emotional or moral decision, it activates a part of the brain, just behind the eyes, called the medial pre-frontal cortex.
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In the study, led by Ryota Kanai of the University College London, people who identified themselves as liberals generally had a larger anterior cingulate cortex — a comma-shaped region near the front of the brain that is involved in decision-making. By contrast, those who identified as conservatives had larger amygdalas — almond-shaped structures that are linked with emotional learning and the processing of fear.
Source: wiktionary
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