Entorhinal Cortex
Key Facts
Abbreviation
EC
Pronunciation
/ˌentəˈraɪnl ˈkɔːteks/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine
Examples in Context
- BACKGROUD : The entorhinal cortex provides sensory information to the hippocam for memory and learning.
- There was no increased activity in another hippocampal region, the entorhinal cortex, which is impaired early in Alzheimer's disease.
- [ Abstrsact ] Objective : To explore the effects of the entorhinal cortex on acute stress response in rats.
- 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.
- 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.
Other meanings of EC
Ecuador
Regional
Electronic Commerce
Business
Ethnic Cleansing
Gov
European Community
Business
Emergency Contraception
Medical
Electronic Communications
Academic
East Coast
Misc
Emergency Contraceptive
Medical
Electronic Check
Business