Phrase Hound found 12 phrases and 9 compound words that contain cortices. The most common are listed below. Open cortices in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 12
- cerebral corticesplural 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.
- cerebellar corticesplural of cerebellar cortex: Part of the cerebellum, a structure of the brain, in the human nervous system.
- insular corticesplural of insular cortex: A block of buildings in a Roman town.
- motor corticesplural of motor cortex: The part of the cerebral cortex involved in motion
- renal corticesplural 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.
- visual corticesplural of visual cortex: The part of the cerebral cortex that processes visual information.
- striate corticesplural of striate cortex: The part of the cerebral cortex that processes visual information.
- entorhinal corticesplural of entorhinal cortex: A part of the brain which, together with the hippocampus, is important to memory functions
- orbitofrontal corticesplural of orbitofrontal cortex: A prefrontal cortex region in the frontal lobes of the brain which is involved in the cognitive process of decision making.
- anterior cingulate corticesplural of anterior cingulate cortex: The frontal part of the cingulate cortex.
- posterior cingulate corticesplural of posterior cingulate cortex: The hind part of the cingulate cortex: it controls mind-wandering and rumination.
- somatic sensory corticesplural of somatic sensory cortex: The region of the cerebral cortex that receives somatic signals from the thalamus.
Compound words 9
- allocorticesplural of allocortex: The heterogenetic cortex; part of the cerebral cortex characterized by fewer cell layers than the neocortex (i.e. fewer than six)
- archicorticesplural of archicortex: Part of the allocortex, specifically three layered hippocampal cortexes necessary for hippocampus formation
- epicorticesplural of epicortex: A thin layer of polysaccharide on the surface of the cortex
- exocorticesplural of exocortex: A special triple layer in the roots of saprophytic orchids.
- hemicorticesplural of hemicortex: Either half of a cortex
- isocorticesplural of isocortex: The major part of the cerebral cortex
- neocorticesplural of neocortex: The top layer of the cerebral hemispheres in the brain of mammals; part of the cerebral cortex.
- paracorticesplural of paracortex: The portion of a lymph node immediately surrounding the medulla.
- subcorticesplural of subcortex: The part of the brain that lies directly below the cortex.