1.
[syn: cerebral, intellectual]
2. of or relating to the cerebrum or brain;
- Example: "cerebral hemisphere"
- Example: "cerebral activity"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cerebral
adj 1: involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct;
"a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"
[syn: cerebral, intellectual] [ant: emotional]
2: of or relating to the cerebrum or brain; "cerebral
hemisphere"; "cerebral activity"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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