English to afrikaans meaning of

cortex

Volgens die woordeboek verwys die woord "korteks" na die buitenste laag van 'n orgaan of liggaamstruktuur, veral die brein. Die korteks van die brein is verantwoordelik vir baie hoër funksies, insluitend bewussyn, denke, geheue en taal. Die term "korteks" word ook gebruik om te verwys na die buitenste laag van ander organe, soos die bynier of die niere. Oor die algemeen is die korteks van enige orgaan die laag weefsel wat die naaste aan die oppervlak is en verantwoordelik is vir die orgaan se primêre funksies.

Sentence Examples

  1. Our outside and often thin and fanciful clothes are our epidermis, or false skin, which partakes not of our life, and may be stripped off here and there without fatal injury our thicker garments, constantly worn, are our cellular integument, or cortex but our shirts are our liber or true bark, which cannot be removed without girdling and so destroying the man.
  2. A three-dimensional holo appeared to superimpose itself over the scene before him, an illusion his nanos were piping into his visual cortex.
  3. There seemed to be a slight movement-a feeble vibration of various regions of the cerebral cortex, including the medial temporal lobe.
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