cerebral cortex

1. 1.

   the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum

   Synonymscerebral mantlepalliumcortex

   Broaderneural structure

   Narrowerneopalliumarchipallium

   Part ofcerebrum

   PartsGolgi's cellcortical areafrontal lobeprefrontal lobeparietal lobeoccipital lobe

Questions about cerebral cortex

What does cerebral cortex mean?

cerebral cortex means "the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum".

What is another word for cerebral cortex?

Close synonyms include cerebral mantle, pallium, cortex. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cerebral cortex a common word?

cerebral cortex is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.