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noun. The portion of the vertebrate central nervous system that is enclosed within the cranium, continuous with the spinal cord, and composed of gray matter and white matter. It is the primary center for the regulation and control of bodily activities, receiving and interpreting sensory impulses, and transmitting information to the muscles and body organs. It is also the seat of consciousness, thought, memory, and emotion.

noun. A functionally similar portion of the invertebrate nervous system.

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noun. Intellectual ability; intellect.

noun. Exceptional intellectual ability; intelligence.

noun. A highly intelligent person.

noun. The primary director or planner, as of an organization or movement.

noun. The control center, as of a ship, aircraft, or spacecraft.

transitive verb. To hit on the head or kill by hitting on the head.

idiom. (beat (one's) brains (out)) To exert or expend great mental effort.

idiom. (on the brain) Obsessively in mind.

idiom. (brain/brains) To explore another's ideas through questioning.

idiom. (rack (one's) brain) To think long and hard.

To dash out the brains of; kill by beating in the skull.

Figuratively, to destroy; defeat; balk; thwart.

To get into the brain; conceive; understand.

noun. In anatomy, the soft grayish and whitish mass filling the cranial cavity of a vertebrate, consisting of ganglionic nerve-cells and nerve-fibers, with the requisite sustentacular and vascular tissue; the encephalon (which see); the part of the cerebrospinal axis which is contained in the cranium.

noun. In entomology, the principal ganglion of the nervous system, situated in the head, over the esophagus, and formed by the coalescence of serveral supra-esophageal ganglia.

noun. The same or a corresponding portion of the nervous system in many other invertebrates.

noun. Understanding; intellectual power; fancy; imagination: commonly in the plural: as, a man of brains; “my brain is too dull,”

noun. 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.

noun. The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.

noun. The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding.

noun. The affections; fancy; imagination.

noun. a very intelligent person.

noun. the controlling electronic mechanism for a robot, guided missile, computer, or other device exhibiting some degree of self-regulation.

noun. to have constantly in one's thoughts, as a sort of monomania.

noun. a decision requiring little or no thought; an obvious choice.

noun. the bony or cartilaginous case inclosing the brain.

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noun. a massive reef-building coral having the surface covered by ridges separated by furrows so as to resemble somewhat the surface of the brain, esp. such corals of the genera Mæandrina and Diploria.

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noun. brain weariness. See Cerebropathy.

noun. fever in which the brain is specially affected; any acute cerebral affection attended by fever.

noun. calcareous matter found in the pineal gland.

transitive verb. To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains.

transitive verb. To conceive; to understand.

noun. The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.

noun. An intelligent person.

noun. A person who provides the intelligence required for something.

noun. Intellect.

noun. By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations.

verb. To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.

verb. To strike (someone) on the head.

verb. To destroy; to put an end to.

verb. To conceive in the mind; to understand.

noun. that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason

verb. kill by smashing someone's skull

noun. that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord

"As to the divisions of the greater brain or cerebrum, we want you to note that the _lower brain_ serves a double purpose."

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