Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word ISOCORTEX
ISOCORTEX
Definitions of ISOCORTEX
- (anatomy) The major part of the cerebral cortex
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9
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using ISOCORTEX in a Sentence
- Proisocortical areas are transitional areas placed between areas of true isocortex and areas of periallocortex (which themselves are transitional between "true" allocortex and proisocortex).
- The neocortex, also called the neopallium, isocortex, or the six-layered cortex, is a set of layers of the mammalian cerebral cortex involved in higher-order brain functions such as sensory perception, cognition, generation of motor commands, spatial reasoning and language.
- It used to be thought that pallium equals cortex and subpallium equals telencephalic nuclei, but it has turned out, according to comparative evidence provided by molecular markers, that the pallium develops both cortical structures (allocortex and isocortex) and pallial nuclei (claustroamygdaloid complex), whereas the subpallium develops striatal, pallidal, diagonal-innominate and preoptic nuclei, plus the corticoid structure of the olfactory tuberculum.
- Mesocortex (also called juxtallocortex) is the transitional areas of the cerebral cortex, formed at borders between true isocortex and true allocortex (either paleocortex or archicortex).
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