Sample Sentences for
cerebral
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    Starting on the left cerebral cortex.  (source)
    cerebral = relating to the brain
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    Cause of death: sudden impact on occipital and parietal lobe of the posterior cerebral cortex, severed spine—from falling off the tower.  (source)
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    Those 10 Gs create enough centrifugal force on the body so that the blood rushes down instead of up to the brain, which results in something called cerebral hypoxia, and this is what kills you.  (source)
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    By lunchtime, though, she was wiped out, and very much looking forward to sitting, with her cerebral cortex removed, for an hour, on the lawn, with Annie, who had insisted on it.  (source)
    cerebral = relating to the brain
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    He mocked at his reasoning, calling it specious and "American"—his criteria of uncerebral phrase-making was that it was American.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncerebral means not and reverses the meaning of cerebral. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    I'd get that far, until she is arrested, and then I could feel my brain expand and deflate simultaneously—my own cerebral Hitchcock zoom—and I'd think: My wife murdered a man.  (source)
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    But cerebral spinal fluid is just the doctors' fancy way of saying brain grease.  (source)
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    What will she demand next—a physical inspection of my cerebral cortex?†  (source)
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    The doctor said she died of a cerebral aneurysm.†  (source)
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    He then suffered several cerebral strokes.†  (source)
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    By that point, entire sectors of my cerebral cortex seemed to have shut down altogether.†  (source)
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    For an hour the four of us watched the effect of the cerebral hemorrhage spread slowly over her body.†  (source)
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    He insists there should have been complete compensation in the undamaged part of my cerebral cortex, and that my dragging right side is merely holding on to a habit it learned in infancy.†  (source)
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