BRAIN
\bɹˈe͡ɪn], \bɹˈeɪn], \b_ɹ_ˈeɪ_n]\
Definitions of BRAIN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
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mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"
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the brain of certain animals used as meat
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kill by smashing someone's skull
By Princeton University
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that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
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mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"
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the brain of certain animals used as meat
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kill by smashing someone's skull
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.
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The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.
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The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding.
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The affections; fancy; imagination.
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To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.
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To conceive; to understand.
By Oddity Software
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The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.
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The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.
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The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding.
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The affections; fancy; imagination.
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To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.
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To conceive; to understand.
By Noah Webster.
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The part of the central nervous system contained within the cranium, comprising the prosencephalon, mesencephalon, and rhombencephalon. It is derived from the anterior part of the embryonic neural tube.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The soft whitish mass of nerve tissue occupying the skull, forming the center of the nervous system; the seat of consciousness and will; hence, often in the plural, understanding; power of mind.
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To dash out the brains of.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To dash out the brains of.
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The mass of nervous matter contained in the skull: the seat of the intellect and of sensation: the intellect.
By Daniel Lyons
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To dash out the brains.
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The soft whitish mass enclosed in the skull, which is the centre of the nervous system and the seat of sensation, perception, consciousness, and will; the understanding; fancy; imagination.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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That part of the central nervous system that is within the skull; hence, mind; intellect; often in the plural.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A soft whitish mass inclosed in the skull of man or animals, in which the spinal marrow and all the nerves terminate; the understanding; imagination.
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To kill by dashing out the brains.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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The centre of the nervous system; the mass of nervous matter in vertebrates at the anterior end of the spinal cord, lying in the skull; in invertebrates, the supraoesophageal or suprapharyngeal ganglia.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The encephalon; all that part of the central nervous system which is contained within the skull, comprising the cerebrum and the cerebellum, the pons Varolii, and the medulla oblongata. See cerebrum and cerebellum
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bladders. The cerebral vesicles
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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