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Definition of brain

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Brain (n.) The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three seg

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Calcarine :: Calcarine (a.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the calcar of the brain..

Madbrain :: Madbrain (a.) Hot-headed; rash.

Hernia :: Hernia (n.) A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture..

Ependyma :: Ependyma (n.) The epithelial lining of the ventricles of the brain and the canal of the spinal cord; endyma; ependymis.

Genu :: Genu (n.) The kneelike bend, in the anterior part of the callosum of the brain..

Hare''brained'' :: Hare'brained' (a.) Wild; giddy; volatile; heedless.

Taenia :: Taenia (n.) A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.

Meninges :: Meninges (n. pl.) The three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord; the pia mater, dura mater, and arachnoid membrane..

Water Brain :: Water brain () A disease of sheep; gid.

Hippocampus :: Hippocampus (n.) A name applied to either of two ridges of white matter in each lateral ventricle of the brain. The larger is called hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also ergot and calcar..

Micrencephalous :: Micrencephalous () Having a small brain.

Fornix :: Fornix (n.) Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain..

Midbrain :: Midbrain (n.) The middle segment of the brain; the mesencephalon. See Brain.

Anfractuosity :: Anfractuosity (n.) A sinuous depression or sulcus like those separating the convolutions of the brain.

Shallow-brained :: Shallow-brained (a.) Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed.

Cerebellum :: Cerebellum (n.) The large lobe of the hind brain in front of and above the medulla; the little brain. It controls combined muscular action. See Brain.

Aphasy :: Aphasy (n.) Loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain..

Braining :: Braining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brai.

Harns :: Harns (n. pl.) The brains.

Cerebrology :: Cerebrology (n.) The science which treats of the cerebrum or brain.