cortical
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- adjective
- /ˈkɔrtɪkəl/
- Specialized
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cortical
- Many children with multiple disabilities are diagnosed with cortical visual impairment (CVI).
- cortical thickness
- cortical excitability
- cortical bone
So the cortical thickness goes down with the age.
- So the cortical thickness goes down with the age.
- So what what are these ideas beyond recursive cortical network that you're looking at now?
- A huge part of our cortical activity is devoted to to sight.
- And so it's a, we're moving towards a real time feed of your cortical brain activity.
- It turns out that it's early onset Alzheimer disease and he also has posterior cortical atrophy or PCA as well.
- So the heart is stopped with brain death, which is a cessation of all brain function, both cortical and subcortical brainstem activity.
- If you look at a mapping of cortical expansion from say macaque or chimp to human, it's the very same map that you'll find the two A receptors in.
- And during sleep spindles, that's when those distal dendrites are able to best learn from other cortical areas and from the hippocampus.
- You know, we don't mean to be cortical chauvinists.
- It's a, it's a wild cortical fabrication.
- It's just it changes a little bit, almost as though we're being more driven by an internal cortical cortical connection like we are during REM sleep.
- I don't check my iPhone or my handheld device at the same time because the cortical brain can only do one thing at a time.
Examples
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That affects very cortical judgement type areas.
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She's showing irregular cortical activity.
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And so it's a, we're moving towards a real time feed of your cortical brain activity.
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Do they have a primitive cortical like structure?
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You know, the human cortical consciousness is the most complex form that we're, that we know of.
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A huge part of our cortical activity is devoted to to sight.
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So people who are getting ready to have cortical neurosurgery.
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It shows us the cortical bone here is black.
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I'm sensing reduced cortical activation.
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The study found that meditation can improve cortical function in adults by enhancing their focus.
Synonyms
Relating to the outer layer of the brain
Compounds
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A clouding of the outer part of the lens of the eye that makes vision blurry
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Seizures that start in one small part of the brain and cause a limb to twitch or strange sensations
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A quick change in electric signals in the brain's outer part measured by a machine
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A hormone from the adrenal gland or a similar drug that reduces swelling and weakens the body's defence
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word cortical comes from the Latin root cortex, which means 'bark' or 'rind', like the outer layer of a tree. So, cortical describes the outer layer of the brain or other organs.