Cortex Definition

kôrtĕks
cortexes, cortices
noun
cortices
The outer part or external layers of an internal organ, as of the kidney or the adrenal glands.
Webster's New World
The outer layer of gray matter over most of the brain.
Webster's New World
A layer of tissue in the roots and stems of dicotyledonous plants, located between the stele and epidermis.
Webster's New World
Any layer of stem tissue external to the xylem.
Webster's New World
The bark or rind of a plant.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Cortex

Noun

Singular:
cortex
Plural:
cortexes, cortices

Origin of Cortex

  • Latin bark sker-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin cortex (“bark”).

    From Wiktionary

Cortex Sentence Examples

  • The cortex of a young stem is usually green, and plays a more or less important part in the assimilative function.

  • The whole cylinder is enclosed by the peculiarly differentiated innermost cell-layer of the cortex, known as the endodermis.

  • The inner layer of the cortex (phloeoterma) may form a well-marked endodermis, or differ in other ways from the rest of the cortex.

  • In a few cases the hydrom strand is continued into the cortex of the stem as a leaf-trace bundle (the anatomically demonstrable trace of the leaf in the stem).

  • In all green plants which have a special protective epidermis, the cortex of the shoot has to perform the primitive fundamental function of carbon assimilation.

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