Neocortex

Definition: Neocortex

Neocortex

Noun

1. The cortical part of the neencephalon.

Date "neocortex" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Neocortex

Domain	Definitions
Health	The largest portion of the cerebral cortex. It is composed of neurons arranged in six layers. (references)
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Synonym: Neocortex

Synonym: neopallium (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Neocortex

English words defined with "neocortex": neocortical. (references)

Specialty definitions using "neocortex": Basal Nucleus of Meynert ♦ Lewy Bodies. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Neocortex

Domain	Title
Books	Hand Function and the Neocortex (reference) Neurobiology of Neocortex: Report of the Dahlem Workshop on Neurobiology of Neocortex, Berlin 1987, May 17-22 (reference) Structural and functional organization of the neocortex : proceedings of a symposium in the memory of Otto D. Creutzfeldt, May, 1993 (reference) The mammalian neostriatum : its functional heterogenity associated with topical input from the neocortex (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Neocortex

"Neocortex" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.22% of the time. "Neocortex" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	97.22%	35	58,339
Lexical Verb (base form)	2.78%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	36	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Neocortex

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
neocortex	12
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Modern Translations: Neocortex

Language		Translations for "neocortex"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		neocortex. (various references)

Dutch		neopallium, neocortex, cortex somaticus. (various references)

French		néocortex. (various references)

German		Neokortex, Neocortex. (various references)

Italian		neopallio, neocortex, neocorteccia, corteccia somatica. (various references)

Pig Latin		eocortexnay.(various references)
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Derivations: Neocortex

Derivations
	Words beginning with "neocortex": neocortexes. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Neocortex

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-n-o-o-r-t-x"
	-2 letters: coexert, coronet, ecotone.
	-3 letters: cenote, center, centre, cooter, cornet, cortex, croton, encore, enroot, extern, recent, tenrec.
	-4 letters: cento, conte, conto, cooee, cooer, crone, croon, enter, erect, exert, noter, oxter, recon, recto, rente, tenor, terce, terne, toner, treen, trone.
	-5 letters: cent, cere, cero, cete, cone, coon, coot, core, corn, cote, erne, exec, exon, next, note, once, onto, oxen, rent, rete, root, rote, roto, teen, tern, tone, toon, torc, tore, torn, toro, tree.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-n-o-o-r-t-x"
	+2 letters: neocortexes.
	+4 letters: expectoration.
	+5 letters: expectorations, overextraction.
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