The cerebral cortex is the brain's outer layer.
Source: tatoeba (5250632)
Cortex
/ˈkɔɹtɛks/
Synonyms for "cortex" (76 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
8 entriesanatomical layeranimal tissuebrain regionneural structureneural tissueplant tissuetissuetissue layer
More specific
11 entriesadrenal cortexcortical parenchymafrontal cortexkidney cortexoccipital cortexovarian cortexparietal cortexroot cortexsomatosensory cortexstem cortextemporal cortex
Collocations
6 entriesInflections
2 entriesDerivations
2 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSample sentences
4 total sentences available.
The cerebral cortex is made up of gray matter.
Source: tatoeba (5250633)
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.
Source: tatoeba (12140167)
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