cortico-
used as combining form of cortex (sense 3) in various medical terms, as ˌcortico-ˈfugal a. = corticifugal; ˌcortico-ˈpetal a. = corticipetal; ˌcortico-ˈspinal a., relating to the cortex and the spine.
| 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. ii. 71 The arriving place of the ‘cortico-petal’ or the place of exit of the ‘cortico-fugal’ fibres. 1901 Dorland Med. Dict. (ed. 2) 178/2 Cortico-afferent. Cortico-efferent. Corticofugal. Cortico-peduncular. Corticospinal. 1908 Practitioner Oct. 557 A purely spinal reflex, which appears in earliest infancy before the cortico-spinal paths are fully developed. 1949 Koestler Insight & Outlook ix. 129 The tear glands are beyond the reach of voluntary, cortico-motor control. 1961 Ham & Leeson Histology (ed. 4) xxv. 717/2 Some of the interlobar arteries [of the kidney] break up into main branches as they ascend in the columns of Bertin, but most of them do so only when they have almost reached the corticomedullary border. 1962 Gray's Anat. (ed. 33) 1083 The genu contains the corticonuclear fibres which arise from area 4 of the cerebral cortex and terminate in the motor nuclei of the cranial nerves to the head. |