cortical

English

WOTD – 22 April 2010

Etymology

From Latin cortex (“bark”); Effectively cortex +‎ -ical.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔː.tɪ.kəl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹ.tɪ.kəl/

Adjective

cortical (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.
2. (botany) Pertaining to the cortex of a stem or root—the tissue that lies inward from the epidermis, but exterior to the vascular tissue.

Derived terms

• adrenocortical
• allocortical
• amygdalocortical
• archicortical
• bicortical
• cerebellocortical
• cerebellothalamocortical
• cerebrocortical
• cortical column
• corticalization
• cortically
• cortical plate
• cortical reaction
• corticocortical
• cytocortical
• electrocortical
• endocortical
• epicortical
• exocortical
• extracortical
• frontocortical
• geniculocortical
• hippocampocortical
• infracortical
• intercortical
• intracortical
• isocortical
• juxtacortical
• koniocortical
• leucocortical
• leukocortical
• mesocortical
• microcortical
• midcortical
• monocortical
• neocortical
• neurocortical
• noncortical
• nucleocortical
• occipitocortical
• paleocortical
• pallidocortical
• paracortical
• pericortical
• posterocortical
• precortical
• prefrontocortical
• retinocortical
• spinocortical
• striatocortical
• subcortical
• thalamocortical
• transcortical
• tricortical
• unicortical
• visuocortical

Related terms

• cortex
• cortico-

Translations

anatomy: pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure

Catalan: cortical Finnish: kortikaalinen, kuori- (fi) Norwegian: Bokmål: kortikal Portuguese: cortical (pt) Russian: корковый (ru) (korkovyj), кортика́льный (ru) (kortikálʹnyj) Spanish: cortical

botany: pertaining to the cortex of a stem or root

Catalan: cortical Finnish: kortikaalinen

Further reading

• “cortical”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• crotalic

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

cortical (feminine corticale, masculine plural corticaux, feminine plural corticales)

1. cortical

Further reading

• “cortical”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Interlingua

Adjective

cortical (not comparable)

1. cortical

Related terms

• cortice

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cortical.

Adjective

cortical m or n (feminine singular corticală, masculine plural corticali, feminine and neuter plural corticale)

1. cortical

Declension

Declension of cortical

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	cortical		corticală		corticali	corticale
	definite	corticalul		corticala		corticalii	corticalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	cortical		corticale		corticali	corticale
	definite	corticalului		corticalei		corticalilor	corticalelor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koɾtiˈkal/ [koɾ.t̪iˈkal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: cor‧ti‧cal

Adjective

cortical m or f (masculine and feminine plural corticales)

1. cortical

Further reading

• “cortical”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10