Cortex Synonyms and Antonyms

kôrtĕks
The tissue forming the outer layer of an organ or structure in plant or animal
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bark
  2. cerebral-cortex
  3. layer
  4. peridium
  5. cerebral mantle
  6. rind
  7. pallium
Antonyms:
  1. medulla
The tissue that surrounds the lens nucleus
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. lens cortex

Words Related to Cortex

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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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