Phrase Hound found 11 phrases and 6 compound words that contain cortexes. The most common are listed below. Open cortexes in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 11
- adrenal cortexesplural of adrenal cortex: The outer portion of the adrenal glands that produces hormones essential to homeostasis.
- anterior cingulate cortexesplural of anterior cingulate cortex: The frontal part of the cingulate cortex.
- cerebellar cortexesplural of cerebellar cortex: Part of the cerebellum, a structure of the brain, in the human nervous system.
- cerebral cortexesplural of cerebral cortex: 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.
- cingulate cortexesplural of cingulate cortex: The medial part of the cortex, between the corpus callosum to the cingulate sulcus.
- entorhinal cortexesplural of entorhinal cortex: A part of the brain which, together with the hippocampus, is important to memory functions
- motor cortexesplural of motor cortex: The part of the cerebral cortex involved in motion
- orbitofrontal cortexesplural of orbitofrontal cortex: A prefrontal cortex region in the frontal lobes of the brain which is involved in the cognitive process of decision making.
- renal cortexesplural of renal cortex: The outer region of the kidney, between the renal capsule and the renal medulla, consisting of the glomeruli and the proximal and distal convoluted tubules.
- striate cortexesplural of striate cortex: The part of the cerebral cortex that processes visual information.
- visual cortexesplural of visual cortex: The part of the cerebral cortex that processes visual information.
Compound words 6
- allocortexesplural of allocortex: The heterogenetic cortex; part of the cerebral cortex characterized by fewer cell layers than the neocortex (i.e. fewer than six)
- exocortexesplural of exocortex: A special triple layer in the roots of saprophytic orchids.
- neocortexesplural of neocortex: The top layer of the cerebral hemispheres in the brain of mammals; part of the cerebral cortex.
- paracortexesplural of paracortex: The portion of a lymph node immediately surrounding the medulla.
- precortexesplural of precortex: That develops into the cortex (of the brain)
- subcortexesplural of subcortex: The part of the brain that lies directly below the cortex.