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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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Turn :: Turn (v. i.) To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain.

Excerebrose :: Excerebrose (a.) Brainless.

Encephalotomy :: Encephalotomy (n.) The act or art of dissecting the brain.

Hot-brained :: Hot-brained (a.) Ardent in temper; violent; rash; impetuous; as, hot-brained youth..

Forebrain :: Forebrain (n.) The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain..

Fillet :: Fillet (n.) A fascia; a band of fibers; applied esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain.

Inframarginal :: Inframarginal (a.) Below the margin; submarginal; as, an inframarginal convolution of the brain..

Brained :: Brained (p.a.) Supplied with brains.

''twixt-brain :: 'Twixt-brain (n.) The thalamen/cephalon.

Stria :: Stria (n.) A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striae, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striae on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain..

Anencephalous :: Anencephalous (a.) Without a brain; brainless.

Brainsick :: Brainsick (a.) Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.

Lyra :: Lyra (n.) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; -- so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.

Macrencephalous :: Macrencephalous (a.) Having a large brain.

Encephalology :: Encephalology (n.) The science which treats of the brain, its structure and functions..

Phrenology :: Phrenology (n.) The science of the special functions of the several parts of the brain, or of the supposed connection between the various faculties of the mind and particular organs in the brain..

Dura Mater :: Dura mater () The tough, fibrous membrane, which lines the cavity of the skull and spinal column, and surrounds the brain and spinal cord; -- frequently abbreviated to dura..

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

Phrenitis :: Phrenitis (n.) Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium; -- called also cephalitis..

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