Crossword clues for hindbrain
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hindbrain \Hind"brain`\, n. [Hind, adj. + brain.] (Anat.) The posterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the epencephalon and metencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the epencephalon only.
Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) The posterior part of the brain, comprising the cerebellum, pons and medulla, the rhombencephalon
WordNet
n. the posterior portion of the brain including cerebellum and brainstem [syn: rhombencephalon]
Wikipedia
The hindbrain or rhombencephalon is a developmental categorization of portions of the central nervous system in vertebrates. It includes the medulla, pons, and cerebellum. Together they support vital bodily processes. The hindbrain can be subdivided in a variable number of transversal swellings called rhombomeres. In the human embryo eight rhombomeres can be distinguished, from caudal to rostral: Rh8-Rh1. Rostrally, the isthmus demarcates the boundary with the midbrain.
A rare disease of the rhombencephalon—"rhombencephalosynapsis"—is characterized by a missing vermis resulting in a fused cerebellum. Patients generally present with cerebellar ataxia.
The caudal rhombencephalon has been generally considered as the initiation site for neural tube closure.
Usage examples of "hindbrain".
A delicate operation had removed part of the reticular formation, the section of the hindbrain that controls sleep.
All those daily repeated tasks, the same daily-routine keystrokes, the hindbrain could handle on autopilot.
The answer my hindbrain had dredged up during the night was a name: Naomi Takahashi.
Striking the back of his head with her elbow, she almost succeeded in knocking him to the ground, but Bryson forced himself to ignore the blinding pain, summoning all of his considerable strength along with combat techniques learned decades ago that now returned to him like ancient hindbrain reflexes.
I brought the glass to my mouth, the fumes punched right into my hindbrain and the memories there: sitting in the restaurant in Oslo, stomach full of good food, sipping Armagnac while Julia leaned across the table and put her hand on my arm, her lovely hair swinging across her jaw, smoky sable in the low lighting.
Something tickled my hindbrain then, and I had to bite my lip to keep from laughing.
It was disorienting, and her hindbrain waited to plummet to her death.
That swelling corresponds in higher animals to the hindbrain or brainstem and the midbrain.
One of the most engaging views of the subsequent evolution of the brain is a story of the successive accretion and specialization of three further layers surmounting the spinal cord, hindbrain and midbrain.
This combination of spinal cord, hindbrain and midbrain MacLean calls the neural chassis.
Michel Jouvet, a French neurologist at the University of Lyons, has found that dream sleep is triggered in the pons, which, while it resides in the hindbrain, is a late and essentially mammalian evolutionary development.
Sometimes common sense said one thing, while a part of your suspicious hindbrain declined to agree.
It was something to do with hindbrain and childhood security, he supposed, not intellect.
His hindbrain gibbered with warning at that invidious, pervasive whiff of smoke and the stench of brimstone.
Fear bubbled up from his hindbrain, and the thick chicken-like claws of his feet dug into the yielding deck surface.