The cerebral cortex is the outermost covering of the brain. It is approximately 2-4 mm in thickness. It contains the frontal, temporal, parietal and occipital lobes.
No the Cortex is the outer layer of a internal organ, a cerebal cotex is, specificly, the outer layer of the brain which contains grey matter and neurons....but after saying that, a Cortex is a outer...
Cerebral cortex literally means brain husk or shell. It comes from the Latin cerebrum meaning brain and cortex meaning husk or shell. So, the outer covering of the brain is called its shell.