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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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Cerebroscopy :: 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)..

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

Encephalopathy :: Encephalopathy (n.) Any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chronic lead poisoning..

Crack :: Crack (n.) A crazy or crack-brained person.

Iter :: Iter (n.) A passage; esp., the passage between the third and fourth ventricles in the brain; the aqueduct of Sylvius..

Lissencephala :: 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..

Madbrain :: Madbrain (n.) A rash or hot-headed person.

Phrenosin :: Phrenosin (n.) A nitrogenous body, related to cerebrin, supposed to exist in the brain..

Cerebric :: Cerebric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the brain..

Terma :: Terma (n.) The terminal lamina, or thin ventral part, of the anterior wall of the third ventricle of the brain..

Mesencephalic :: Mesencephalic (a.) Of or pertaining to the mesencephalon or midbrain.

Nates :: Nates (n. pl.) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.

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

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

Fissural :: Fissural (a.) Pertaining to a fissure or fissures; as, the fissural pattern of a brain..

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

Diencephalon :: Diencephalon (n.) The interbrain or thalamencephalon; -- sometimes abbreviated to dien. See Thalamencephalon.

Hydrocephalic :: Hydrocephalic (a.) Relating to, or connected with, hydrocephalus, or dropsy of the brain..

Addle :: Addle (v. t. & i.) To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain..

Lobe :: Lobe (n.) A round projecting part of an organ, as of the liver, lungs, brain, etc. See Illust. of Brain..