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cerebral cortex (plural cerebral cortices or cerebral cortexes)
- (neuroanatomy) 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.
2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
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.
- pallium
- See also Thesaurus:cerebral cortex
layer of the brain
- Arabic: قشرة مخية
- Armenian: գլխուղեղի կեղև (hy) (glxuġeġi keġew)
- Asturian: corteya cerebral
- Basque: kortex zerebral
- Belarusian: кара вялікіх паўшар’яў f (kara vjalikix paŭšarʺjaŭ)
- Bulgarian: мозъчна кора f (mozǎčna kora)
- Catalan: escorça cerebral f
- Chinese:
- Czech: mozková kůra f
- Danish: hjernebark (da)
- Dutch: hersenschors (nl) c
- Esperanto: kortekso
- Estonian: suurajukoor
- Finnish: aivokuori (fi)
- French: cortex cérébral (fr)
- German: Großhirnrinde f
- Greek: εγκεφαλικός φλοιός m (egkefalikós floiós)
- Hebrew: קליפת המוח (he)
- Hungarian: agykéreg (hu), nagyagykéreg
- Icelandic: heilabörkur m
- Irish: coirtéis cheirbreach f
- Italian: corteccia cerebrale (it) f
- Japanese: 大脳皮質 (ja) (dainōhishitsu)
- Kazakh: ми қыртысы (mi qyrtysy)
- Korean: 대뇌 피질 (daenoe pijil)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: tûkila mejiyê f
- Latin: cortex cerebri
- Lithuanian: galvos smegenų žievė
- Malay: korteks sereberum
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hjernebark m
- Nynorsk: hjernebork m
- Polish: kora mózgowa f, kora mózgu f
- Portuguese: córtex (pt) m
- Romanian: cortex cerebral (ro) n
- Russian: кора́ головно́го мо́зга f (korá golovnóvo mózga)
- Slovak: mozgová kôra f
- Slovene: možganska skorja f
- Spanish: corteza cerebral (es) f, córtex cerebral f
- Swedish: hjärnbark (sv) c
- Thai: เปลือกสมอง (bplʉ̀ʉak-sà-mɔ̌ɔng)
- Turkish: serebral korteks
- Ukrainian: кора головного мозку f (kora holovnoho mozku)
- Vietnamese: vỏ đại não