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Related to cerebral: cerebral palsy, cerebral edema, cerebral cortex

cer·e·bral

(sĕr′ə-brəl, sə-rē′-)

adj.

1. Of or relating to the brain or cerebrum.

2. Appealing to or requiring the use of the intellect; intellectual rather than emotional: "His approach is cerebral, analytical, cautious" (Helen Dewar).

cer·e′bral·ly adv.

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cerebral

(ˈsɛrɪbrəl; US səˈriːbrəl)

adj

1. (Anatomy) of or relating to the cerebrum or to the entire brain

2. involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct

3. (Phonetics & Phonology) phonetics another word for cacuminal

(Phonetics & Phonology) phonetics a consonant articulated in the manner of a cacuminal consonant

ˈcerebrally adv

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ce•re•bral

(səˈri brəl, ˈsɛr ə-)

adj.

1. of or pertaining to the cerebrum or the brain.

2. characterized by the use of the intellect rather than intuition or instinct.

3. retroflex (def. 2).

4. a retroflex speech sound.

[1795–1805; < New Latin]

ce•re′bral•ly, adv.

cer·e·bral

(sĕr′ə-brəl, sə-rē′brəl)

Relating to the brain or cerebrum.

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Adj.	1.	cerebral - involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama" intellectual emotional - determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason; "it was an emotional judgment"
	2.	cerebral - of or relating to the cerebrum or brain; "cerebral hemisphere"; "cerebral activity"

cerebral

adjective

1. Relating to or performed by the mind:

intellective, intellectual, mental, psychic, psychical, psychological.

2. Appealing to or engaging the intellect:

intellectual, sophisticated, thoughtful.

Informal: highbrow.

Translations

مُخّي، دِماغي

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hjerne-

Gehirn-...

cerebral

cérébral

agyi

heila-

cerebrale

cerebrinissmegenų

smadzeņu-

cerebral hjerne-

beyne ait

脑的

cerebral

[ˈserɪbrəl] (US) [səˈriːbrəl]

A. ADJ

1. (Med) → cerebral

2. (= intellectual) → cerebral, intelectual

B. CPD cerebral palsy N → parálisis f cerebral

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cerebral

[ˈsɛrɪbrəl səˈriːbrəl] adj

[artery, haemorrhage] → cérébral(e)

(= intellectual) → cérébral(e)cerebral cortex n → cortex m (cérébral)cerebral palsy [ˌsɛrɪbrəlˈpɔːlzɪ] n → paralysie f cérébrale

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cerebral

adj (Physiol) → zerebral; (= intellectual) → geistig; person → durchgeistigt, vergeistigt; cerebral palsy → zerebrale Lähmung

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cerebral

[ˈsɛrɪbrəl] adj (frm) → cerebrale

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cerebral

(ˈserəbrəl) , ((American) səˈri:brəl) adjective

of the brain.

ce·re·bral

a. cerebral, rel. al cerebro;

___ edema → edema ___;

___ embolism and thrombosis → embolia y trombosis ___;

___ hemorrhage → hemorragia ___;

___ meningitis → meningitis ___;

___ palsy → parálisis ___;

___ tumor → tumor ___.

cerebral

adj cerebral; — palsy parálisis f cerebral

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Such shock was productive of molecular changes in the cerebral cells.

True, the shock of their fall was communicated to the cerebral cells, but they died immediately, before they could have progeny.

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A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house.

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Do odors impress some cerebral centre with images of the thing that emitted them?

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The more I reflected the more convinced I grew that I was dealing with a case of cerebral disease; and though I dismissed my servants to bed, I loaded an old revolver, that I might be found in some posture of self-defence.

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At first, I say, the handling-machine did not impress me as a machine, but as a crablike creature with a glittering integument, the controlling Martian whose delicate tentacles actuated its movements seeming to be simply the equivalent of the crab's cerebral portion.

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She was talking nonsense, but not worse nonsense than people usually do talk at breakfast, the cerebral circulation, as he knew to his cost, being apt to give trouble at that hour.

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** "Sensation and the Cerebral Cortex," "Brain," vol.

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For two nights I had hardly had a wink of sleep, and my brain was beginning to feel that numbness which marks cerebral exhaustion.

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There was no peculiar indication in any organ -- an excitement of the nervous system -- that was it; a case of cerebral congestion -- nothing more.

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"As to the laughter," said Challenger, "you will bear in mind that, like yourselves, I have not been exempt from the stimulating cerebral effects of the etheric poison.

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The father, fastidious, cerebral, morbidly shrinking from all contacts, could only sing in harmonious numbers of what the son felt with a dumb and reckless sincerity.