cortex

See also: córtex

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cortex (“cork, bark”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹtɛks/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːtɛks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔɹtɛks

Noun

cortex (countable and uncountable, plural cortexes or cortices)

1. (countable, anatomy) The outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.
   • 2011 April 8, Amie Ninh, “Liberal vs. Conservative: Does the Difference Lie in the Brain?”, in TIME‎:

     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.

2. (uncountable, botany) The tissue of a stem or root that lies inward from the epidermis, but exterior to the vascular tissue.
3. (archaeology) The outer surface of a piece of flint.

Hyponyms

(outer layer of an animalian organ or body structure):

• adrenal cortex
• allocortex
• anterior cingulate cortex
• archicortex
• cerebellar cortex
• cerebral cortex
• cingulate cortex
• cytocortex
• entorhinal cortex
• insular cortex
• isocortex
• mesocortex
• motor cortex
• neocortex
• orbitofrontal cortex
• paleocortex
• paracingulate cortex
• prefrontal cortex
• renal cortex
• somatic sensory cortex
• somatosensory cortex
• visual cortex

Coordinate terms

(botany):

• bark
• cork

Derived terms

• cerebrocortex
• cortexless
• cortical
• cortico- (and its derivatives)
• endocortex
• epicortex
• exocortex
• hemicortex
• koniocortex
• paracortex
• precortex
• proopiomelanocortic
• retinex
• striate cortex
• subcortex

Translations

outer layer of an internal organ or body structure

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Bashkir: ҡабыҡ (qabıq) Bulgarian: ципа (bg) f (cipa) Catalan: còrtex (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 皮质 (zh) (pízhì) Czech: kůra (cs) f Finnish: kuori (fi) French: cortex (fr) m German: Rinde (de) f, Cortex (de) m, Kortex (de) m Greek: φλοιός (el) (floiós) Hungarian: kéreg (hu) Ido: kortico (io) Irish: coirtéis f Khmer: សំបក (km) (sɑmbɑɑk) Korean: 피질(皮質) (ko) (pijil) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: tûkil (ku) f Norwegian: Bokmål: bark (no) m Nynorsk: bork (nn) m Polish: kora (pl) f Portuguese: córtex (pt) m Russian: кора (ru) (kora) Thai: เปลือก (th) (bplʉ̀ʉak) Welsh: breithell f (of brain), gwisg (cy) f (of other organs)

tissue of a stem or root

Bulgarian: кора (bg) f (kora) French: cortex (fr) m Hungarian: kéreg (hu) Latin: cortex Polish: kora (pl) f Portuguese: córtex (pt) m Tagalog: luknap

Further reading

• “cortex”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Noun

cortex m (uncountable)

1. cortex

Derived terms

• cortex préfrontal

Further reading

• “cortex”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.