cortical en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈkɔː.tɪ.kəl/ (UK)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈkɔɹ.tɪ.kəl/ (US)
Etymology
From Latin cortex (“bark”), stem cortic-, + -al.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.
An adult male skeleton from Wharram Percy showed fine-grained subperiosteal deposits of new bone on multiple skeletal elements, together with fine cortical pitting[…].
2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 27:
- (not-comparable) Pertaining to the cortex of a stem or root—the tissue that lies inward from the epidermis, but exterior to the vascular tissue.
Deriveds
cytocortical · intercortical · posterocortical · subcortical · midcortical · juxtacortical · exocortical · transcortical · mesolimbocortical · infracortical · cortical column · electrocortical · intracortical · endocortical · cortical alveolus · visuocortical · leukocortical · corticocortical · frontocortical · extracortical · striatocortical · prefrontocortical · corticalization · allocortical · cortically · paracortical · cerebellothalamocortical · spinocortical · precortical · neurocortical · hippocampocortical · pallidocortical · cerebellocortical · tricortical · pericortical · cerebrocortical · koniocortical · geniculocortical · paleocortical · nucleocortical · cortical reaction · isocortical · bicortical · neocortical · monocortical · leucocortical · retinocortical · microcortical · archicortical · adrenocortical · cortical plate · mesocortical · noncortical · occipitocortical · thalamocortical · epicortical · unicortical · amygdalocortical
Relateds
Translations (14)
es cortical (anatomy: pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure) · pl korowy (anatomy: pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure) · la corticālis (anatomy: pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure) · la corticālis (botany: pertaining to the cortex of a stem or root) · ca cortical (anatomy: pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure) · ca cortical (botany: pertaining to the cortex of a stem or root) · ru кортика́льный (anatomy: pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure) · fi kortikaalinen (anatomy: pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure) · fi kuori- (anatomy: pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure) · pl korowy (botany: pertaining to the cortex of a stem or root) · fi kortikaalinen (botany: pertaining to the cortex of a stem or root) · pt cortical (anatomy: pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure) · ru корковый (anatomy: pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure) · nb kortikal (anatomy: pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure)