cerebral cortex
Noun
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Noun
cerebral cortex
- (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.
- pallium
- See also Thesaurus:cerebral cortex
- German: Großhirnrinde
- Portuguese: córtex
- Russian: кора́ головной
- Spanish: corteza cerebral, córtex cerebral
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