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cerebral
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context anatomy medicine English) Of, or relating to the brain or cerebral cortex of the brain. 2 intellectual rather than emotional. 3 (context linguistics obsolete English) retroflex.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cerebral may refer to: Cerebrum , part of the vertebrate central nervous system Retroflex consonant , also referred to as a cerebral consonant, a type of consonant sound used in some languages Intellectual, rather than emotional.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES cerebral palsy COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN blood ▪ The relief of pain by oxygen inhalations, which reduce cerebral blood flow, also suggests that this is a factor. ▪ It is commonly due to globally diminished ...
Usage examples of cerebral.
The causes, if they can be determined, should be removed, and those remedies administered which relieve nervous irritability and cerebral congestion.
The tidal regularity of cerebral chemical flows, the cyclonic violence latent in the adrenergic current of the autonomic nervous system, the delicate mysteries of the sweep of oxygen atoms from pneumonic membrane into the bloodstream.
Consequently the concentration of carbon dioxide in the alveolar air and the blood is increased and, the efficiency of the cerebral reducing valve being lowered, visionary experience becomes possible.
Sometimes there is intolerance of light or sound, and cerebral congestion, amounting almost to apoplectic symptoms.
Thus, cerebral or brain exhaustion, or debility, is usually the result of mental overwork, while sexual asthenia, or weakness is generally due to abuse of the sexual organs or to sexual excesses.
So perhaps he had an edited cerebral chemistry, or an adaptive aural processing mutation in his derivative Kido lineage.
It is sometimes argued that cuts or lesions in significant parts of the cerebral cortex in humans-as by bilateral prefrontal lobotomy or by an accident-have little effect on behavior.
CVA, a cerebrovascular accident, what used to be called a cerebral haemorrhage.
The same cannot be said about the vast, otherworldly subject of cybersex, which involves a range of physical and cerebral activities more suited to science fiction than the kind of fiction we have been examining up to now.
I fear Trevor Dobson is much more cunning, far less intellectual, and certainly more evil than the members of those cerebral organizations.
They had imitated the symptoms of cerebral fibroma so skillfully that I was completely taken in.
The excitability which had been showing itself in spasms and strange paroxysms had been transferred to those nervous centres, whatever they may be, cerebral or ganglionic, which are concerned in the emotional movements of the religious nature.
At any rate, I think it is much more likely that childhood and dream amnesia arise from the fact that in those states our mental lives are determined almost entirely by the R-complex, the limbic system and the right cerebral hemisphere.
Down through the cerebral cortex she dove, down through the neopallium, deep into the archipal-lium.
However, there is a large expansion in the size of the neopallium, which spreads out to cover the top half of the cerebral cortex.