Cerebral

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cerebral \Cer"e*bral\, a. [L. cerebrum brain; akin to Gr. ka`ra
     head: cf. F. c['e]r['e]bral. See {Cheer}.] (Anat.)
     Of or pertaining to the cerebrum.
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     {Cerebral apoplexy}. See under {Apoplexy}.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cerebral \Cer"e*bral\, n. [A false translation of the Skr.
     m[=u]rdhanya, lit., head-sounds.]
     One of a class of lingual consonants in the East Indian
     languages. See {Lingual}, n.
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     Note: Prof. W. D. Whitney calls these letters linguals, and
           this is their usual designation in the United States.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cerebral
       adj 1: involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a
              cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"
              [syn: {intellectual}] [ant: {emotional}]
       2: of or relating to the cerebrum or brain; "cerebral
          hemisphere"; "cerebral activity"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  109 Moby Thesaurus words for "cerebral":
     accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental,
     articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad,
     cacuminal, central, checked, close, conceptive, conceptual,
     consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, dissimilated, dorsal,
     endopsychic, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard,
     heavy, high, highbrow, highbrowed, intellectual, intellectualistic,
     intelligent, internal, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar,
     lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mental, mid,
     monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, noetic, noological,
     occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal,
     pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, phrenic, pitch,
     pitched, posttonic, psychic, psychical, psychologic, psychological,
     rational, reasoning, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, soft, sonant,
     spiritual, stopped, stressed, strong, subjective, surd, syllabic,
     tense, thick, thinking, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented,
     unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless,
     vowel, vowellike, weak, wide