Entorhinal Cortex

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
EC
Pronunciation
/ˌentəˈraɪnl ˈkɔːteks/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine

Examples in Context

  1. BACKGROUD : The entorhinal cortex provides sensory information to the hippocam for memory and learning.
  2. There was no increased activity in another hippocampal region, the entorhinal cortex, which is impaired early in Alzheimer's disease.
  3. [ Abstrsact ] Objective : To explore the effects of the entorhinal cortex on acute stress response in rats.
  4. On the oblique coronal planes that passed through the mammillary bodies, the anterior commissure, and the lateral geniculate bodies, the thickness and area of entorhinal cortex and the area of hippocampus were measured on the screen.
  5. As a well-known structure for learning and memory, hippocampus receives somatosensory input from entorhinal cortex, and encodes them to certain pattern for communication and storage within the brain.

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