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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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... therefore very useful in some Cases. The Fruit, if ripe, will presently cleanse a foul Wound, but causes Pain. The Fruit is rotten, when ripe, and commonly contains four flat Kernels, call'd Stones, which is the Seed. 'Tis said, the Cortex Peruvianus comes from a Persimmon-Tree, that grows in New-Spain. I have try'd the Drying of this Bark, to imitate it, which it does tolerably well, and agrees therewith. It is binding enough to work the ...

— A New Voyage to Carolina • John Lawson

... separated by three or four layers of cells from the peripheral bundles. In all these vascular bundles the bundle-sheath is very strongly developed all round and is very much developed especially at the sides. It is this great development of sclerenchyma that makes the outer portion of the cortex hard. Within the ground tissue are found a number of vascular bundles scattered more or less uniformly. These bundles have no continuous bundle-sheaths but have instead groups of fibres at the sides and in front of the phloem. The cavities near the annular vessels are somewhat ...

— A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses • Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar

... book (there is also an extremely thoughtful Introduction and a full Index), are divided into two parts, one entitled "Lines of Development" and the other "The Conditions of Development." The reviewer's lazy cortex, and possibly those of other and more leisurely readers, is made glad by a complete chapter-synopsis or syllabus, occupying seven pages). So much of the whole treatise is suggested in the synopsis of the first three ...

— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... lecture. He verbally dissected her, giving a full and lucid explanation of the nervous system, from the spinal marrow and its termination in the coccyx, up to the cortex of the brain, in which he was of opinion that there was in that case a lesion—probably curable—amply accounting for the phenomenon present. So clear, indeed, were his remarks that even a layman could ...

— The Seven Secrets • William Le Queux