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)

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 cell; Golgi's 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 lobe (that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying directly behind the forehead)

prefrontal lobe (the anterior part of the frontal lobe)

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

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

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)