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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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... and oppressed. And Quakerdom made him a rebel by prenatal tendency. Paine's schooling was slight, but his parents, though poor, were thinking people, for nothing sharpens the wits of men, preventing fatty degeneration of the cerebrum, like persecution. In this respect, the Jews and Quakers have been greatly blessed and benefited—let us congratulate them. Very early in life Paine acquired the study habit. And for the youth who ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 9 - Subtitle: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers • Elbert Hubbard

... of smell 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 ...

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

... clearly unfitted to function as the cerebrum of Empire. It must be relieved of burdens which in the complexity of modern politics it is no longer able to bear. How is this to be done? In one way and in one way only, by leaving local business to local ...

— The Open Secret of Ireland • T. M. Kettle

... are usually multiple, and may occur both in the cerebrum and in the cerebellum; they are ...

— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

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