CEREBRAL MANTLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cerebral mantle mean? 

• CEREBRAL MANTLE (noun)
  The noun CEREBRAL MANTLE has 1 sense:

1. the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum

  Familiarity information: CEREBRAL MANTLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEREBRAL MANTLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum

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Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cerebral cortex; cerebral mantle; cortex; pallium

Hypernyms ("cerebral mantle" is a kind of...):

neural structure (a structure that is part of the nervous system)

Meronyms (parts of "cerebral mantle"):

Golgi's cell; Golgi cell (a neuron in the cerebral cortex with short dendrites and with either a long axon or a short axon that ramifies in the grey matter)

cortical area; cortical region (any of various regions of the cerebral cortex)

frontal cortex; frontal lobe (that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying directly behind the forehead)

prefrontal cortex; prefrontal lobe (the anterior part of the frontal lobe)

parietal cortex; parietal lobe (that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying below the crown of the head)

occipital cortex; occipital lobe (that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying in the back of the head)

temporal cortex; temporal lobe (that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying inside the temples of the head)

Meronyms (substance of "cerebral mantle"):

gray matter; gray substance; grey matter; grey substance; substantia grisea (greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers; forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cerebral mantle"):

neocortex; neopallium (the cortical part of the neencephalon)

archipallium; paleocortex (the olfactory cortex of the cerebrum)

Holonyms ("cerebral mantle" is a part of...):

cerebrum (anterior portion of the brain consisting of two hemispheres; dominant part of the brain in humans)