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Main Entry:
cor·tex
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-teks
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tɛks
/
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Main Entry:
cortex
Part of Speech:
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Main Entry:
cortex
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Example Sentences
The neurons in their primary motor
cortex
responded to the movements of the arm.
There could be several reasons why the monkey's visual
cortex
was active before the test was presented to them.
Whether headache is initiated by the brain stem, by the
cortex
or by the sub
cortex
remains an active debate.
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The neurons in their primary motor
cortex
responded to the movements of the arm.
There could be several reasons why the monkey's visual
cortex
was active before the test was presented to them.
Whether headache is initiated by the brain stem, by the
cortex
or by the sub
cortex
remains an active debate.
Whether self-awareness simply emerges from a large
cortex
or whether selection for it necessarily results in one is unclear.
Grey matter exists as a thin, relatively flat sheet covering the rest of the brain, and is referred to as the
cortex
.
The study also suggested that sleep deprivation interferes with the ability of the prefrontal
cortex
to make logical decisions.
But in the long term the ultimate goal would be to place electrodes in the motor
cortex
of the brain.
When doctors asked her to think of playing tennis, areas of her motor
cortex
leapt to life.
His brain-stem reflexes are attached to a nonfunctioning
cortex
.
The hippocampus does so, encoding the firing sequence in the
cortex
and thereby consolidating the memory.
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Main Entry:
cortex
Part of Speech:
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
Copyright © 2002. Published by Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved.
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Main Entry:
Cortex
Part of Speech:
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © Denis Howe 2010
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