Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated beneath the cortex.

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  • adjective medicine Of or pertaining to the subcortex, the portion of the brain located below the cerebral cortex

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  • adjective of or relating to or being or involving nerve centers below the cerebral cortex

Etymologies

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sub- +‎ cortical

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Examples

  • Most of them are located below the cerebral cortex and are known as subcortical.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • Most of them are located below the cerebral cortex and are known as subcortical.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • Most of them are located below the cerebral cortex and are known as subcortical.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • Most of them are located below the cerebral cortex and are known as subcortical.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • The caudate nucleus is part of the telencephalon (forebrain), but is inside (underneath) of the cerebral cortex, so it is called a subcortical nucleus.

    Brain Blogger 2009

  • The caudate nucleus is part of the telencephalon (forebrain), but is inside (underneath) of the cerebral cortex, so it is called a subcortical nucleus.

    Brain Blogger 2009

  • The caudate nucleus is part of the telencephalon (forebrain), but is inside (underneath) of the cerebral cortex, so it is called a subcortical nucleus.

    Brain Blogger 2009

  • The caudate nucleus is part of the telencephalon (forebrain), but is inside (underneath) of the cerebral cortex, so it is called a subcortical nucleus.

    Brain Blogger 2009

  • However, laboratory studies have not been able to unequivocally determine how the very basic information-processing "subcortical" regions of the brain function in processing risk and reward.

    Out of the soylent planet 2006

  • Research into "the brain chemistry of love" indicates that when a person sees a potential mate, it takes as little as a fifth of a second for the brain to launch a complex "love-related" chain reaction involving multiple areas of the cortical and more primitive subcortical portions of the brain.

    Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: The Biochemistry Of Love's Ecstasy And Agony M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011

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