Term Name: cerebral cortex
Synonyms: brain cortex, cortex cerebralis, cortex cerebri, cortex of cerebral hemisphere, cortical plate (areas), cortical plate (CTXpl), pallium of the brain
Definition: The thin layer of gray matter on the surface of the cerebral hemisphere that develops from the telencephalon. It consists of the neocortex (6 layered cortex or isocortex), the hippocampal formation and the olfactory cortex.
Ontology: Cell Ontology [UBERON:0000956]

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is part of: cerebral hemisphere gray matter pallium
has parts: allocortex astrocyte of the cerebral cortex auditory cortex Brodmann area calcarine sulcus central sulcus cerebral cortex endothelial cell cerebral cortex GABAergic interneuron cerebral cortex glial cell cerebral cortex neuron cerebral cortex neuropil cortical granule cell dorsolateral prefrontal cortex hippocampal formation insula koniocortex lateral sulcus layer of developing cerebral cortex Meynert cell neocortex neuron of cerebral cortex olfactory cortex paleocortex paracentral lobule paracingulate gyrus periallocortex periamygdaloid cortex perirhinal cortex perirhinal cortex of rodent of Burwell et al 1995 premotor cortex prepyriform area rhinal sulcus secondary olfactory cortex supplemental motor cortex temporoparietal junction visual cortex
is a type of: central nervous system cell part cluster central nervous system gray matter layer