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cerebral cortex - definition and meaning
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The extensive outer layer of gray matter of the cerebral hemispheres, largely responsible for higher brain functions, including sensation, voluntary muscle movement, thought, reasoning, and memory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun neuroanatomy The grey, folded, outermost layer of the
cerebrum that is responsible for higherbrain processes such as sensation, voluntary muscle movement, thought, reasoning, and memory.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum
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- afferent neuron
- arachnoid
- arbor vitae
- archipallium
- autonomic nervous system
- axon
- between brain
- brain
- brain stem
- central nervous system
- cerebellar hemispheres
- cerebellum
- cerebrospinal fluid
- cerebrum
- convolution
- corpus callosum
- corpus striatum
- craniosacral nervous system
- dendrite
- diencephalon
- dura mater
- effector organ
- efferent neuron
- endbrain
- fissure
- folia
- forebrain
- fornix
- frontal lobe
- ganglion
- glial cells
- globus pallidus
- gray matter
- gyrus
- hindbrain
- hippocampus
- hypothalamus
- internuncial neuron
- lenticular nucleus
- limbic lobe
- little brain
- lobe
- mantle
- medulla oblongata
- medullary sheath
- meninges
- mesencephalon
- metencephalon
- midbrain
- myelencephalon
- neopallium
- nerve
- nerve trunk
- nervous system
- neuron
- occipital lobe
- optic chiasm
- pallium
- pallium
- parietal lobe
- peripheral nervous system
- pia mater
- pineal body
- pituitary body
- plexus
- pons
- reticular system
- rhombencephalon
- sensorium
- sensory area
- sensory cell
- solar plexus
- spinal cord
- subthalamus
- synapse
- telencephalon
- temporal lobe
- thalamus
- thoracolumbar nervous system
- ventricle
- vermis
- white matter
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