How to Use cortical in a Sentence

cortical

adjective

• Moreover, it was found that brown bears and cats had the the same number of cortical neurons.
  — Elly Belle, Teen Vogue, 18 June 2018
• On a tight cap, researchers have marked the cortical structures to target.
  — Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 29 Aug. 2017
• One way to think of this is as nature’s way to prevent cortical idleness.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
• And for as yet unknown reasons, along with more cortical neurons comes a longer life.
  — Suzana Herculano-Houzel, The Conversation, 26 Nov. 2019
• This leaves the second eye functional but with no cortical neurons to talk to.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
• The team created a model of the ventral region by adding an extra protein to cortical spheroids at just the right time.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2020
• With displaced, there is no — or a minimal amount of — cortical disruption of the bone.
  — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 5 June 2019
• Every rodent from the bite-sized mouse to the Doberman-sized capybara has about the same number of cortical areas — roughly 40.
  — Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2018
• To keep you from your own cortical corruption, there is one perfect, simple way to figure out when a flashback takes place: sports.
  — refinery29.com, 22 May 2018
• The team found that infraslow waves traveled through the cortical layers of the awake rodents’ brains—and changed direction when the animals were anesthetized.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 23 May 2018
• Dozens of microchips scattered over the cortical surface might allow researchers to listen in on thousands of neurons at the same time.
  — Emily Mullin, Wired, 13 Sep. 2021
• Thus, because of both the lack of a large cortical pallium and the presence of their small brains, birds were thought to have severely limited cognition.
  — Onur Güntürkün, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2020
• What does brain flexibility and rapid cortical takeover have to do with dreaming?
  — David Eagleman, Time, 29 Dec. 2020
• In both dogs and humans, subcortical parts of the brain process intonations, while higher, cortical parts of the brain process word meanings.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2020
• In both dogs and humans, subcortical parts of the brain process intonations, while higher, cortical parts of the brain process word meanings.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2020
• So don’t even think about fixing yourself a drone host milkshake or a cortical fluid syringe cocktail yet.
  — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 25 June 2018
• Their plan to pose as Chinese envoys very predictably fails, especially since the Shogun appears to be pulling a Bernard and leaking cortical fluid out of his ears.
  — refinery29.com, 21 May 2018
• The team wanted to estimate the cortical thickness across the cortical mantle.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
• Responsiveness can change from all to none within millimeters or across a sulcus (a groove on the cortical surface).
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 10 May 2021
• The cause was posterior cortical atrophy, a rare form of Alzheimer’s disease, her daughter Rose Dempsey said.
  — William Grimes, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2017
• Thin lines within a bone — much like growth rings in a tree — can indicate the age of an animal by marking where the growth of the cortical bone slowed or stopped for annual dry seasons or winters.
  — Anna Gibbs, Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023
• The shogun’s dunzo, but what about that leaking cortical fluid, is that detail important?
  — William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 20 May 2018
• Starting in the early 2000s, imaging tools like MRIs gave scientists the insight that some cortical shrinking is common in older adults.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 19 Nov. 2019
• Online guides show which areas of the brain to stimulate, roughly, by positioning the electrodes, in a process like watering your cortical lawn.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
• Bernard, on the verge of collapse, steals cortical fluid from an offline host and injects it into his own leaking brain cavity while Charlotte isn’t looking.
  — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 23 Apr. 2018
• The organoid became vascularized by the rat and eventually grew to cover one-third of its cerebral cortical hemisphere.
  — Claudia Dreifus, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
• It is most frequently seen during the embryonic stage of development, at which point the neurons of the brain’s cortical structures are just being formed.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• The latest is called cortical spreading depression, which refers to a spontaneous electrical wave that travels through the brain’s cortex.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2018
• But for all the natural examples of loop design, surprisingly little is known about why the networks in leaves and the cortical blood vessels are organized in this way.
  — Emily Singer, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2013
• Her battle with adrenal cortical carcinoma has lasted more than six years.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2017

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