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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 segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.
- Brain - n. - The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.
- Brain - n. - The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding.
- Brain - n. - The affections; fancy; imagination.
- Brain - v. t. - To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.
- Brain - v. t. - To conceive; to understand.
- Brained - imp. & p. p. - of Brain
- Brained - p.a. - Supplied with brains.
- Braining - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Brain
- Brainish - a. - Hot-headed; furious.
- Brainless - a. - Without understanding; silly; thoughtless; witless.
- Brainpan - n. - The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium.
- Brainsick - a. - Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.
- Brainsickly - adv. - In a brainsick manner.
- Brainy - a. - Having an active or vigorous mind.
- Coenurus - n. - The larval stage of a tapeworm (Taenia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid.
- Cerebriform - a. - Like the brain in form or substance.
- Lissencephala - n. pl. - A general name for all those placental mammals that have a brain with few or no cerebral convolutions, as Rodentia, Insectivora, etc.
- Kephalin - n. - One of a group of nitrogenous phosphorized principles, supposed by Thudichum to exist in brain tissue.
- Teretial - a. - Rounded; as, the teretial tracts in the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain of some fishes.
- Cerebralism - n. - The doctrine or theory that psychical phenomena are functions or products of the brain only.
- 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.
- Embolism - n. - The occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus. Embolism in the brain often produces sudden unconsciousness and paralysis.
- Cerebro-spinal - a. - Of or pertaining to the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
- Thalamencephalon - n. - The segment of the brain next in front of the midbrain, including the thalami, pineal gland, and pituitary body; the diencephalon; the interbrain.
- Ependyma - n. - The epithelial lining of the ventricles of the brain and the canal of the spinal cord; endyma; ependymis.
- Meninges - n. pl. - The three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord; the pia mater, dura mater, and arachnoid membrane.
- Funiculus - n. - A cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are made up; applied also to different bands of white matter in the brain and spinal cord.
- Meandrina - n. - A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals.
- Cerebrate - v. i. - To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.
- Cerebroscopy - n. - Examination of the brain for the diagnosis of disease; esp., the act or process of diagnosticating the condition of the brain by examination of the interior of the eye (as with an ophthalmoscope).
- Pia mater - - The delicate and highly vascular membrane immediately investing the brain and spinal cord.
- Meningitis - n. - Inflammation of the membranes of the brain or spinal cord.
- Cerebrin - n. - A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whether it exists as such in nerve tissue, or is a product of the decomposition of some more complex substance.
- Rhinencephalon - n. - The division of the brain in front of the prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise.
- Commissure - n. - A collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma.
- Phrenomagnetism - n. - The power of exciting the organs of the brain by magnetic or mesmeric influence.
- Trepan - v. t. & i. - To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan.
- Neuron - n. - The brain and spinal cord; the cerebro-spinal axis; myelencephalon.
- Cerebripetal - a. - Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the spinal cord to the brain and so transfer sensations (centripetal impressions) from the exterior inwards.