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''cortical'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜Definition｜1st｜20260320113731-00-⌔
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English
Adjective
cortical (not comparable)
- (anatomy) Pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.
- ✤ An adult male skeleton from Wharram Percy showed fine-grained subperiosteal deposits of new bone on multiple skeletal elements, together with fine cortical pitting […].1
- (botany) Pertaining to the cortex of a stem or root —the tissue that lies inward from the epidermis, but exterior to the vascular tissue.
Etymology
From Latin cortex (“bark”), stem cortic-, + -al.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˈkɔː.tɪ.kəl/
- Audio (Southern England): 🔊
- (US) IPA: /ˈkɔɹ.tɪ.kəl/
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Link to original Footnotes
2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 27: ↩
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