Three different layers of cells, arranged in strings, that interpenetrate to form a network directly bathed by blood, that breaks in upon them from open blood vessels, compose the cortex.

If the process involving the adrenal cortex attacks it after birth, the symmetrical correspondence and harmony of the primary sex organs and the secondary sex characters are not affected.

In women, the adrenal medulla naturally tends to overtop the cortex, because the latter makes for masculinity.

The charging buffalo, for example, owns a strikingly wide adrenal cortex.

Human beings possess a cortex larger than that of any other animal.

The true corpus luteum resembles closely the adrenal cortex in make-up and staining reactions.

An environment which tends to encourage the masculine traits in her, to arouse repeatedly her pugnacity and combative decisions in the more rapid give and take of the masculine world, will rouse the adrenal cortex to greater activity, and so make her face hirsute, her attitudes aggressive, and perhaps render her sterile.