Cerebral cortex
(
CTX
;
Bauhin, 1605
)
: The dorsal (Barclay, 1803) topographic division of the endbrain (Kuhlenbeck, 1927), with a basically radial, laminated architecture; the ventral (Schulze, 1893) topographic division is the cerebral nuclei (Swanson, 2000). The cerebral cortex was described and illustrated for macrodissected adult humans by Vesalius (1543), see Singer translation (1952, p. 100 and Fig. 7), and the term itself was introduced for macrodissected adult humans by Bauhin (1605, p. 580), see Meyer (1971, p. 121). Common synonym is pallium (Burdach, 1822).
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Pallium ( Burdach, 1822 ) : Synonym for cerebral cortex (Bauhin, 1605). Used first by Burdach for macrodissected adult humans (1822, p. 13), and by many others since, including His (1895, p. 85), Nauta & Feirtag (1986, p. 45). In Latin "pallium" refers to a mantle, cloak, or blanket (Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1996).
