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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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... 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 their wonderful ...

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

... he became the most talked of man in the town. When any difficulty arose he was the first to be consulted. The town found it necessary to come to him for information on every local scheme that had its birth in the local cerebrum, for no one else was capable of handling any emergency and carrying it ...

— Skookum Chuck Fables - Bits of History, Through the Microscope • Skookum Chuck (pseud for R.D. Cumming)

... insect's head is said to correspond to the bones of the face, to the bones of the cerebrum and to the hyoid of higher Vertebrates, the skeleton of the prothorax to the bones of the cerebellum, of the palate, and the pieces of the larynx, the skeleton of the mesothorax to the parietals, interparietals, and opercular bones, and that of the metathorax to the skeleton of the thorax of Vertebrates. ...

— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

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