Noun: cortex
| Singular | cortex |
| Plural | cortexes; cortices |
Sample Sentences
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In the study, led by Ryota Kanai of the University College London, people who identified themselves as liberals generally had a larger anterior cingulate cortex — a comma-shaped region near the front of the brain that is involved in decision-making. By contrast, those who identified as conservatives had larger amygdalas — almond-shaped structures that are linked with emotional learning and the processing of fear. [2011 April 8, Amie Ninh, “Liberal vs. Conservative: Does the Difference Lie in the Brain?”, in TIME, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2025:]
Nouns inflected like cortex
solar apex,
vile vortex,
subindex,
cosimplex,
striate cortex,
heat index,
Articulation Index,
cerebellar cortex,
demodex,
tab index,
body mass index,
juxtallocortex,
misery index,
hypersimplex,
paracortex,
orbital index,
card index,
narthex,
subcortex,
iodine index, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-
3. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kert-
4. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kort-ek-sder.
5. Latin cortexbor.
6. English cortex
7. Borrowed from Latin cortex (“cork, bark”).
Verbs referencing "cortex"
Spanish Nouns
corteza.