Cortex vs. Vortex

Cortexnoun

The outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.

Cortexnoun

The tissue of a stem or root that lies inward from the epidermis, but exterior to the vascular tissue.

Cortexnoun

Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering.

Cortexnoun

Bark; rind; specifically, cinchona bark.

Cortexnoun

The outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain.

Cortexnoun

the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the gray matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum

Cortexnoun

the tissue forming the outer layer of an organ or structure in plant or animal

Cortexnoun

the outer layer of the cerebrum (the cerebral cortex), composed of folded grey matter and playing an important role in consciousness.

Cortexnoun

an outer layer of another organ or body part such as a kidney (the renal cortex), the cerebellum, or a hair.

Cortexnoun

an outer layer of tissue immediately below the epidermis of a stem or root.

Vortexnoun

A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.

Vortexnoun

(figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.

Vortexnoun

(figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.

Vortexnoun

(historical) A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.

Vortexnoun

(zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.

Vortexnoun

A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy.

Vortexnoun

A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices.

Vortexnoun

Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix.

Vortexnoun

the shape of something rotating rapidly

Vortexnoun

a powerful circular current of water (usually the resulting of conflicting tides)

Vortexnoun

a whirling mass of fluid or air, especially a whirlpool or whirlwind

Vortex

In fluid dynamics, a vortex (plural vortices/vortexes) is a region in a fluid in which the flow revolves around an axis line, which may be straight or curved. Vortices form in stirred fluids, and may be observed in smoke rings, whirlpools in the wake of a boat, and the winds surrounding a tropical cyclone, tornado or dust devil.