Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the brain or cerebrum.
- adjective Appealing to or requiring the use of the intellect; intellectual rather than emotional.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the brain of a vertebrate animal, whether to the whole brain or to the brain proper or cerebrum.
- Pertaining to the anterior or preoral ganglia of the nervous system in invertebrate animals, regarded as the analogue or homologue of the vertebrate brain.
- These ganglia are commonly connected with the rest of the nervous system by an esophageal ring, or commissural fibers encircling the anterior part of the alimentary canal. See
esophageal ring , under esophageal. - noun A cerebral sound or letter. See I.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the cerebrum.
- adjective See under
Apoplexy . - noun One of a class of lingual consonants in the East Indian languages. See
lingual , n.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy, medicine Of, or relating to the
brain orcerebral cortex of the brain. - adjective
Intellectual rather thanemotional . - adjective linguistics, obsolete
Retroflex .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct
- adjective of or relating to the cerebrum or brain
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Examples
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a fact previously well observed, and nothing has occurred to dethrone the founder of cerebral science, Dr. Gall, who ranks immeasurably beyond all his contemporaries, and who prepared the way for the full development of Cerebral Psychology, resulting from the discovery of the _impressibility of the brain_, which has opened the entire realm of _cerebral psychology_, and through that has given us access to every realm of wisdom.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 1856
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When you use the term "cerebral" to describe David Cronenberg, its meaning can be applied in several ways.
Histories and Mysteries Steve Dollar 2012
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Cerebral Palsy www. balancedhealthtoday.com The term cerebral palsy is not a specific diagnosis, but is generally applied to children who experience some form of brain trauma either at the time of birth or shortly before.
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Daly City, California Al Khari, United Arab Emirates, Al Khari, UAE Santa Ana, California Knoxville, Tennessee Boston, Massachusetts Benalla www. balancedhealthtoday.com The term cerebral palsy is not a specific diagnosis, but is generally applied to children who experience some form of brain trauma either at the time of birth or shortly before.
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Cerebral Palsy www. balancedhealthtoday.com The term cerebral palsy is not a specific diagnosis, but is generally applied to children who experience some form of brain trauma either at the time of birth or shortly before.
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Daly City, California Al Khari, United Arab Emirates, Al Khari, UAE Santa Ana, California Knoxville, Tennessee Boston, Massachusetts Benalla www. balancedhealthtoday.com The term cerebral palsy is not a specific diagnosis, but is generally applied to children who experience some form of brain trauma either at the time of birth or shortly before.
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The term cerebral palsy is used to describe a grouping of conditions that arise during the initial few years of a child?
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The term cerebral palsy is used to describe a group of conditions that arise during the initial few years of a child?
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Barring a severe case of what we call cerebral rectal inversion, (I will let you folks figure that one out.) it is also one of the safest activities.
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Barring a severe case of what we call cerebral rectal inversion, (I will let you folks figure that one out.) it is also one of the safest activities.
john commented on the word cerebral
"What seems most remarkable in this Woodward book is exactly what seemed remarkable in the previous Woodward books, each of which was presented as the insiders' inside story and each of which went on to become a number-one bestseller: these are books in which measurable cerebral activity is virtually absent."
Political Fictions, by Joan Didion, pg. 176
September 28, 2008
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September 28, 2008