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subˈcortical, a.
[sub- 1 a.]
1. Lying, situated, or formed under the bark of a tree; (of insects) living or feeding under bark.
1815Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1818) I. 212 Wood-lice, ear⁓wigs, spiders, field-bugs, and similar subcortical insects. 1832Lindley Introd. Bot. 213 To facilitate the descent of the subcortical fibres of the growing buds. 1851Mantell Petrifactions i. 43 These are not produced by the attachment of petioles, but are sub-cortical protuberances. 1866Rye Brit. Beetles 89 Omalium planum..is, perhaps, as good a type of a subcortical insect as could be seen.
2. Situated under or pertaining to the region underlying (a) the cortex of a sponge, (b) the cortex of the brain.
1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 415 The roots of the incurrent sinuses form widely open spaces immediately beneath the cortex and are the rudiments of subcortical crypts. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 810 Supra-nuclear paralysis (including the cortical and subcortical varieties). Ibid. VII. 422 The lesion was an essentially subcortical one.
Hence subˈcortically adv., with reference to the region underlying the cortex.
1871W. A. Leighton Lichen-flora 150 The sub-cortically albo-maculate thallus. |