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noun

Cortex n. (pl. cortices)

Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering.

(Med.) Bark; rind; specifically, cinchona bark.

(Anat.) The outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain.

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Etymology of 'Cortex'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cortex" Quotes from Famous Books

... tissue) that are basic in all nervous and mental processes. They are dependent upon the modificability of nerve cells and fibers by stimuli, e. g., a light flashing through the pupil and passing along the optical tracts to the occipital cortex produces changes which constitute the basis of visual memory. Experience modifies nervous tissue in definite manner, and SOMETHING remembers. Who remembers? Who is conscious? Believe what you please about that, call it ego, soul, call it consciousness dipped out of a cosmic ...

— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson

... or find in the brain of man that answers to the soul? Only certain movements of matter in the brain cortex. What difference does it find between inert matter and a living organism? Only a vastly more complex mechanics and chemistry in the latter. A wide difference, not of kind, but of degree. The something we call vitality, that ...

— The Breath of Life • John Burroughs

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