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Cerebellum

noun

(pl. E. cerebellums, L. cerebella)

A major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans.

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paleocerebellum

vena cerebellum

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... child without a cerebrum. Heysham records the birth of a child without a cerebrum and remarks that it was kept alive for six days. There was a child born alive in Italy in 1831 without a brain or a cerebellum—in fact, no cranial cavity—and yet it lived eleven hours. A somewhat similar case is recorded in the last century. In the Philosophical Transactions there is mentioned a child virtually born without a head who lived four days; and Le Duc records a case of a child born without brain, cerebellum, ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

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