单词 | subcortical |
释义 | subcorticaladj. 1. Botany and Ecology. Lying, situated, or formed under the bark of a tree, the cortex of a lower plant, etc. Also (of an insect, fungus, etc.): living under tree bark. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [adjective] > living or feeding under bark subcortical1818 the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [adjective] > of or relating to bark > under the bark intercutaneous1651 subcortical1933 1818 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (ed. 3) I. 212 If the bark be any where separated from the wood, a numerous army of wood-lice, earwigs, spiders, field-bugs, and similar subcortical insects take their station there. 1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 213 To facilitate the descent of the subcortical fibres of the growing buds. 1852 J. H. Balfour Class Bk. Bot. I. i. iv. 313 In the latter case [sc. the thallus of higher algae], there may be distinguished different cellular strata called external or cortical, internal or medullary, and intermediate or subcortical. 1893 G. Massee Brit. Fungus-flora III. 484 Fusarium salicinum. Corda. Stroma subcortical, forming pale patches. 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 4 Jan. 17 Murray pine... A beautiful timber white-ant and rot resistant, and its dark rosewood heart and soft cream subcortical layers. 1973 Oikos 24 427/1 Conidia which are produced in the subcortical space, as well as ascospores, can only be dispersed by insects. 2006 J. T. Costa Other Insect Societies xv. 461 D. micans is attacked by a variety of subcortical predators, including the ichneumonid wasp. 2. Chiefly Anatomy. Relating to or situated in the region underlying a cortex, esp. that of the brain. Also figurative.In quot. 1900: of a sponge. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [adjective] > cortex subcortical1873 cortico-fugal1890 cortico-petal1890 infracortical1890 intracortical1890 corticifugal1898 corticipetal1898 transcortical1900 cortico-spinal1901 1873 Glasgow Med. Jrnl. 5 412 Degeneration of the subcortical medullary substance of the cerebrum in certain cases of general paralysis. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 422 The lesion was an essentially subcortical one. 1900 E. A. Minchin et al. in E. R. Lankester Treat. Zool. II. 129 The incurrent canals may widen considerably after traversing the ectosome, to form wide subcortical crypts, lying in the choanosome. 1944 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 1 Jan. 16/1 Is it not possible that consciousness of choice is a cortical, and consciousness of necessity a subcortical, function? 1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon ix. 159 He was to reflect..that this impulse could have been a sub-cortical adumbration of the trouble yet to come. 2008 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) July 59/1 Subcortical circuits in the cerebellum at the back of the brain..help to update motor commands based on sensory feedback. Derivatives subˈcortically adv. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [adverb] membranously1750 membranaceously1821 subcortically1871 schizogenetically1884 vascularly1890 rhexigenously1959 1871 W. A. Leighton Lichen-flora 150 The sub-cortically albo-maculate thallus. 1939 E. A. Bessey Text-bk. Mycol. (new ed.) xiv. 380 The pycnidia early open out to a..cup or saucer shaped structure.., either arising subepidermally or subcortically. 1994 S. Pinker Lang. Instinct xi. 334 Human vocalizations..like sobbing, laughing, moaning, and shouting in pain, are also controlled subcortically. 2003 Science 25 Apr. 569/1 (caption) Most visual input heads for the cortex..but some is shuttled subcortically. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1818 |
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