Laminar organization

Laminar organization

Laminar organization describes the way certain tissues, such as bone membrane, skin, or brain matter, are arranged in layers. The organization of the cerebral cortex can be described by its laminar organization, due to the arrangement of cortical neurons into six distinct layers.


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