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cerebrum

[suh-ree-bruhm, ser-uh-] / səˈri brəm, ˈsɛr ə- /




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They appear to have inherited several key traits, including expansion of the cerebrum, cerebellum and optic lobes, from earlier relatives before further adapting these regions for flight, Fabbri says.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 9, 2025

They found that the fish, Danionella cerebrum, drums out a powerful rhythm on an organ called a swim bladder.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2024

Lemon's -ism appears have taproots into the frontal cortex of his cerebrum, entangled in a way that may be impossible for any amount of "formal training" to overcome.

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2023

A study published Thursday in the Journal of Comparative Neurology suggests the dinosaur’s cerebrum contained enough neurons to solve problems and even form cultures.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2023

It overcame its reflex of rejection, and by its self-control gave proof of the intact cerebrum it possessed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

Especially since our greedy, oxygen-hungry cerebra owe everything to the heart’s complex, coordinated contraction.

From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2015

Editor Reedy is but casting his pearls before swine—is talking to people who, having eyes see not, having ears hear not, and whose cerebra are filled with sawdust.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann

For George, though you would not have suspected it from his exterior, was one of those in whose cerebra the grey matter splashes restlessly about, producing strong curtains and crisp dialogue.

From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

There is only the pitting of muscles and cerebrums, all under a single unifying principle: aggression.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chimpanzees, man's closest animal relatives, have larger cerebrums than most other primates, but man's is the largest.

From Time Magazine Archive

Brain scans show their cerebrums are perfectly normal, if not extraordinary.

From Time Magazine Archive

There may exist somewhere in this country those hardy viewers who, with pads, pencils, reference works and receptive cerebrums, actually catalogued policy nuances and body language and advanced their state of decision.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, it is next to impossible to shake off these superphysical cerebrums.

From Byways of Ghost-Land by Elliott O'Donnell




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