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Cerebrum

noun

(pl. E. cerebrums, L. cerebra)

Anterior portion of the brain consisting of two hemispheres; dominant part of the brain in humans.

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"Cerebrum" Quotes from Famous Books

... as the assertion, will be thought," says Mr. Spencer, "our Houses of Parliament discharge in the social economy functions that are, in sundry respects, comparable to those discharged by the cerebral masses in a vertebrate animal.... The cerebrum co-ordinates the countless heterogeneous considerations which affect the present and future welfare of the individual as a whole; and the Legislature co-ordinates the countless heterogeneous considerations ...

— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley

... lienem, cerebrum, nervosque juvat et roborat."—"I reckon it a great treasure for a student to have by him in his closet, to take now and then a spoonful."—COGAN'S Haven of ...

— The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual • William Kitchiner

... is differently developed in different animals; the olfactory nerve of the dog is larger than any other in the cerebrum, which peculiarity will at once account for their ...

— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt

Words linked to "Cerebrum" : cerebral mantle, convolution, telencephalon, Rolando's fissure, fissure of Sylvius, Sylvian fissure, hemisphere, sulcus centralis, lateral cerebral sulcus, neural structure, cerebral hemisphere, cortex, sulcus lateralis cerebri, gyrus, pallium, cerebral cortex, central sulcus, fissure of Rolando