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Internal granular layer
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Internal granular layer (cerebral cortex).
The internal granular layer of the cerebral cortex, also commonly referred to as the granular layer of the cortex, is layer IV of 6 layers in the subdivision of the mammalian cerebral cortex. The adjective internal is used in opposition to the external granular layer of the cortex, the term granular refers to the granule cells found here.