Usually means: Outer layer of the brain.
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  1. cortex: Merriam-Webster
  2. cortex: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cortex: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cortex: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cortex: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cortex, cortex: Wordnik
  7. cortex: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cortex, Cortex: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. cortex: Wiktionary
  10. cortex: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. cortex: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. cortex: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. cortex: Dictionary.com
  14. cortex: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Cortex (anatomy), Cortex (archaeology), Cortex (botany), Cortex (film), Cortex (hair), Cortex (journal), Cortex (neuroanatomy), Cortex (podcast): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cortex: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cortex: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cortex: Rhymezone
  19. Cortex: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cortex: FreeDictionary.org
  21. cortex: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. cortex: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Cortex: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  24. cortex: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Cortex: Health & Beauty Glossary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cortex: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Cortex (neuroanatomy), cortex: Encyclopedia

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. cortex: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Cortex: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  6. cortex: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
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  11. cortex: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  12. Cortex (neuroanatomy), cortex: Medical dictionary
  13. Cortex: Drug Medical Dictionary
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CORTEX: Acronym Finder

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. cortex: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Cortex: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
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  1. cortex: Urban Dictionary

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  2. Cortex: Beauty & Health Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cortex)

noun:  (countable, anatomy) The outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.
noun:  (uncountable, botany) The tissue of a stem or root that lies inward from the epidermis, but exterior to the vascular tissue.
noun:  (archaeology) The outer surface of a piece of flint.

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