cortex
cortices
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pluralof cortex.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Extensive preclinical work in the motor and visual cortices was carried out with Dr. Tolias and Bijan Pesaran, professor of neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania, both recognized leaders in computational and systems neuroscience.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 9, 2025
Pleasure and pain are physically mingled in many of the same subcortical regions in your brain, with your insular and cingulate cortices both lighting up and triggering heart-pounding amygdala responses.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2023
In one 2022 study, Fani, Harnett and their colleagues reported that among 81 Black women who had experienced trauma, those who reported experiencing more racial discrimination showed proportionally thinner gray matter in the cingulate cortices.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2023
If this works, she adds, one should expect to see reduced connected activity between the auditory and motor cortices.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2021
Do the cortices not enter into lamentatory conversation, taking the impress of exteriorities?
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
