fusiform layer of cerebral cortex
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Cerebral cortex — For other uses, see Cortex (disambiguation). Brain: Cerebral cortex The cerebral cortex is the outer layer depicted in dark violet … Wikipedia
Cortex — The outer portion of an organ. The outer portion of the adrenal gland is called the adrenal cortex; the outer portion of the cerebrum is the cerebral cortex (a key part of the brain); the outer part of the kidney is the renal cortex (it lies just … Medical dictionary
layer — A sheet of one substance lying on another and distinguished from it by a difference in texture or color or by not being continuous with it. SEE ALSO: stratum, lamina. SYN: panniculus. ameloblastic l. the internal l. of the enamel organ. SYN: enam … Medical dictionary
Cerebral hemisphere — Brain: Cerebral hemisphere The human brain as viewed from above, showing the cerebral hemis. The anterior aspect (front) of the brain is to the right. Latin Hemisphaerium cerebri Code TA … Wikipedia
Visual cortex — Brain: Visual cortex View of the brain from behind. Red = Brodmann area 17 (primary visual cortex); orange = area 18; yellow = area 19 … Wikipedia
Motor cortex — Topography of human motor cortex. Different body parts are represented by distinct areas, lined up along a fold called the central sulcus. Motor cortex is a term that describes regions of the cerebral cortex involved in the planning, control, and … Wikipedia
Prefrontal cortex — Prefrontal redirects here. For the skull bone, see Prefrontal bone. For the reptile scales, see Prefrontal scale. Brain: Prefrontal cortex Brodmann areas of lateral surface. Per BrainInfo, parts of #8, #9, #10, #1 … Wikipedia
Cell — The basic structural and functional unit in people and all living things. Each cell is a small container of chemicals and water wrapped in a membrane. Each cell in the human body there are 100 trillion cells in each of us contains the entire… … Medical dictionary
lamina multiformis — [TA] multiform layer: layer VI of the cerebral cortex, composed of various cell types, chiefly containing irregular fusiform cells, the axons of which project into the white substance of the cerebral cortex hemisphere. Called also fusiform or… … Medical dictionary
Martinotti cells — fusiform cells with ascending axon processes in the layers of the cerebral cortex, especially in the multiform layer and also in the internal pyramidal layer … Medical dictionary
