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A major division of the vertebrate brain
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cerebellum
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Wikipedia
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The cerebellum (Latin for "little brain") is a region of the brain that plays an important role in motor control . It may also be involved in some cognitive functions such as attention and language , and in regulating fear and pleasure responses, but its ...
Wiktionary
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n. (context neuroanatomy English) Part of the hindbrain in vertebrates. In humans it lies between the brainstem and the cerebrum. It plays an important role in sensory perception, motor output, balance and posture.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Cerebellum \Cer`e*bel"lum\, n.; pl. E. Cerebellums , L. Cerebella . [L., dim. of cerebrum brain.] (Anat.) The large lobe of the hind brain in front of and above the medulla; the little brain. It controls combined muscular action. See Brain .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from Latin cerebellum "a small brain," diminutive of cerebrum "brain" (see cerebral ).
WordNet
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n. a major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans [also: cerebella (pl)]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Even in his haste he noted subtle distinctions of taste between cerebellum and cortex, between frontal lobes and limbic system. ▪ Fortunately, although much about the cerebellum is mysterious, enough is known for such features ...
Usage examples of cerebellum.
Pressure on the cerebellum is supposed to account for cases of priapism observed in executions and suicides by hanging.
Would she like to know about the thalamic radiations of the ventral nuclei of the cerebellum?
Some physiologists suppose that the cerebellum is the source of that harmony or associative power which co-ordinates all voluntary movements, and effects that delicate adjustment of cause to effect, displayed in muscular action.
In the posterior chamber of the skull is the cerebellum, anterior to, and below which, is the medulla oblongata, connecting with the spinal cord and sympathetic system.
Its cerebral area includes the posterior and inferior portions of the cerebrum, the entire cerebellum, and that part of the medulla which connects with the spinal cord, all of which sustain intimate relations to vital conditions.
This condition extended through both the larger and the smaller brain, cerebrum, and cerebellum, but was not so marked in the medulla, or commencing portion of the spinal cord, as in the other portions.
The anterior gives form to the forehead, the middle rests in the cavity at the base of the skull, and the posterior lobe is supported by the tentorium, by which it is separated from the cerebellum beneath.
From the standpoint of thermoregulation, the division of the brain into a cerebellum and a cerebrum with temporal, parietal, and frontal lobes is meaningless.
As an injury to the cerebellum causes purpose tremor, so Lethean dust causes PK tremor.
An autopsy turned up encephalitis and myelitis of the brain, including Negri bodies in the pyramidal cells of the hippocampus, and Purkinje cells of the cerebellum.
A human brain with a volume of about 1,375 cubic centimeters contains, as we have said, apart from the cerebellum about ten billion neurons and some ten trillion bits.
Now, I consider that the phrenologists have omitted an important thing in not pushing their investigations from the cerebellum through the spinal canal.
Furthermore, although the frontal cortex was quite dense, its apparent normality was hardly in keeping with the contrasting readouts for other portions of the cerebellum.
But no tortoise had ever been a god, and knew the unwritten motto of the Quisition: Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum.
Some bastard had cauterized all the synapses and electronically traumatised those two lumps of cerebellum.