Cortex or cortical may refer to:
Biology
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Cortex (anatomy), the outermost layer of an organ
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Cerebral cortex, the outer layer of the vertebrate cerebrum, part of which is the ''forebrain''
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Motor cortex, the regions of the cerebral cortex involved in voluntary motor functions
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Prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain
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Visual cortex, regions of the cerebral cortex involved in visual functions
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Cerebellar cortex, the outer layer of the vertebrate cerebellum
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Renal cortex, the outer portion of the kidney
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Adrenal cortex
The adrenal cortex is the outer region and also the largest part of an adrenal gland. It is divided into three separate zones: zona glomerulosa, zona fasciculata and zona reticularis. Each zone is responsible for producing specific hormones. It is ...
, a portion of the adrenal gland
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Cell cortex, the region of a cell directly underneath the membrane
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Cortex (hair), the middle layer of a strand of hair
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Cortex (botany), the outer portion of the stem or root of a plant
Entertainment
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''Cortex'' (film), a 2008 French film directed by Nicolas Boukhrief
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Cortex (podcast), a 2015 podcast
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Cortex Command'', a 2012 video game
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Doctor Neo Cortex, a fictional character in the ''Crash Bandicoot'' video game series
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Nina Cortex, the niece of Neo Cortex
* Cortex, a French jazz funk band featuring
Alain Mion
* Cortex, a Swedish post-punk alternative band featuring
Freddie Wadling
Other uses
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Cortex (archaeology), the outer layer of rock formed on the exterior of raw materials by chemical and mechanical weathering processes
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''Cortex'' (journal), cognitive science journal published by Elsevier
* Cortex, a family of the
ARM architecture
ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures for computer processors, configured ...
of CPUs
* Cortex, a division of
Gemini Sound Products
* Cortex, a digital lending platform by
Think Finance
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Cortex Pharmaceuticals, a company of New Jersey, United States
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Cortex Innovation Community, a district in St. Louis, Missouri, United States
See also
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Cordtex, a type of detonating cord used in mining
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Corex (disambiguation) Corex may refer to:
* Corex, a cough medicine
* Corex Process, a metal smelter configuration
* Corex (geological analysis), a defunct provider of analysis services to the petroleum industry
* Corex, in Greek mythology, one of the sons of Coronus (G ...
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