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adjectiveinvolving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct
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Definition that contains cerebral
- headache pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs
- subcortical of or relating to or being or involving nerve centers below the cerebral cortex
- brainwave (neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph
- striatum a striped mass of white and grey matter located in front of the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere; consists of the caudate nucleus and the lenticular nucleus
- golgi's cell a neuron in the cerebral cortex with short dendrites and with either a long axon or a short axon that ramifies in the grey matter
- cephalalgia pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs
- great cerebral vein a cerebral vein formed by the two internal cerebral veins and continuing into the sinus rectus
- vena cerebri any of several veins serving the cerebral hemispheres of the brain
- dentate nucleus a large laminar nucleus of grey matter within the white matter of each cerebral hemisphere
- callosectomy severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy)