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  • The doctor said she died of a cerebral aneurysm.†   (source)
  • What will she demand next—a physical inspection of my cerebral cortex?†   (source)
  • His cerebral functions had deserted him.†   (source)
  • As well as I can tell with my simple field scanner, the nematodes terminate in the amygdala and other basal ganglia in each cerebral hemisphere.†   (source)
  • He then suffered several cerebral strokes.†   (source)
  • The fair was a "contagion," a "virus," a form of "progressive cerebral meningitis."†   (source)
  • For an hour the four of us watched the effect of the cerebral hemorrhage spread slowly over her body.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • The commander of the Northern Fleet had died of a cerebral hemorrhage two hours into his first interrogation in the Lubyanka, much to everyone's disappointment.†   (source)
  • he saw her bringing the pitcher down into his face, he saw himself dying of a fractured skull and a massive cerebral hemorrhage in a freezing flood of ice-water while goose-pimples formed on his arms.†   (source)
  • His mother asked him in alarm where in the world he had been, for they had looked everywhere for him so that he could attend General Ignacio Maria, the last grandson of the Marquis de Jaraiz de la Vera, who had been struck down that afternoon by a cerebral hemorrhage: it was for him that the bells were tolling.†   (source)
  • Herr Palmgren was in critical condition following a severe cerebral haemorrhage.†   (source)
  • He's a cheerful, burly looking man, not at all the cerebral, ascetic type I imagine hovering over datascreens in the Match Department.†   (source)
  • Stuart Hutchison, thirty-four, attired in a Ren and Stimpy T-shirt, was a cerebral, somewhat wonkish Canadian cardiologist on leave from a research fellowship.†   (source)
  • Everything shut down, cerebral ghost town.†   (source)
  • But he had the tendency of all wildly disorganized people to suppose that the lives of others were tamer and less sensual and more cerebral than his own.†   (source)
  • Let there be no brain or meninges or ventricle or cerebral artery or cerebrospinal fluid or whatnot in it.†   (source)
  • A cerebral hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • She told him about her movie star mother, Patricia Neal, and all the family tragedies—her mother's well-publicized cerebral hemorrhage and long convalescence, and currently well-publicized and angry breakup with Ophelia's father, the writer Roald Dahl.†   (source)
  • He would never watch another fist fight without fearing he was going to faint and crack his skull open on the pavement or suffer a fatal heart attack or cerebral hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • Mike Strank: Franklin Borough, Pennsylvania He was the enigma: the immigrant who became the ultimate fighting Yank; the cerebral little boy from the tough mill town who grew up to be the protosergeant; the physical intimidator who turned out to be the tough shepherd of his flock.†   (source)
  • By the time Mortenson and Darsney met their teammates, on a rock face near Camp I, Fine was lapsing in and out of conciousness, suffering also from cerebral edema, the altitude-induced swelling of the brain.†   (source)
  • What emerged in vague form at first and then in sharper outline was the explanation that I had been seeing that shim in a kind of intellectual, rational, cerebral way in which the scientific properties of the metal were all that counted.†   (source)
  • Within the internal layer of cerebral vessels were small deposits of green.†   (source)
  • In those early days, Pollard and Woolf found common ground in their quick minds, cerebral riding styles, and keen senses of humor.†   (source)
  • And when we brought one of them to full term...there were intriguing anomalies in its EEG graphs, strangeness in its brainwave patterns that might have indicated heretofore unknown cerebral function.†   (source)
  • Two others were supposedly killed in accidents — one in a plane crash, one by, of all things, a cerebral hemorrhage while hiking in the Shaoguan mountains — if it's not true, at least it's imaginative.†   (source)
  • Davey Cantor had said something about a cerebral hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • But death was due to a cerebral haemorrhage.†   (source)
  • When Queens have to they do it by a cerebral process passed down in the blood...Good.†   (source)
  • He told Dr. Edwards, "That Chink knows more about the pathology of cerebral hemorrhage than I do, and I bet as much as you do.†   (source)
  • There are some forty thousand neurons packed together in a square millimeter of the cerebral cortex, in such a fashion that each one has several hundred synaptic connections with others about it.†   (source)
  • It was a swift, I should say almost instantaneous cerebral thrombosis.†   (source)
  • That's only an eighth of the cerebral cortex, so I'm seven-eighths me, and one-eighth him.   (source)
  • Then, as if a bundle of signals and directives had finally reached his cerebral cortex, his lips awakened and returned the force of her kiss.   (source)
  • I'm afraid I'd get a cerebral hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • I was actually born with too much cerebral spinal fluid inside my skull.†   (source)
  • Frode looked as if he were about to have a cerebral haemorrhage.†   (source)
  • In the Dark Of my room, I try to sleep, but thoughts whirl through my skull, cerebral tornadoes.†   (source)
  • I might not know the cause of such cerebral malfunction, if not for an article I once read.†   (source)
  • Then with a mere cerebral flutter, you're not.†   (source)
  • Mom's crazed face parts the cerebral mist.†   (source)
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt had succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage at Warm Springs, Georgia.†   (source)
  • Obviously the Andromeda Strain showed a predilection for cerebral vasculature.†   (source)
  • He could die from a cerebral haemorrhage tonight.†   (source)
  • By that point, entire sectors of my cerebral cortex seemed to have shut down altogether.†   (source)
  • The first in a long series of small cerebral haemorrhages had been triggered by the beating.†   (source)
  • Palmgren had a cerebral haemorrhage a couple of years ago.†   (source)
  • Remain quiet, I am here to examine your cerebral configuration, and first I shall measure your heartbeat and respiration, but I knew what he was up to.†   (source)
  • He said you are well up on cerebral diseases and nervous afflictions, and that in matters concerning amnesia you are on your way to becoming a leading expert.†   (source)
  • In each case the target's brain and cerebral fluid boiled, turned to vapor, and blew the encasing skull to bits.†   (source)
  • Salander had told him nothing about her mother, but the pastor had apparently spoken to someone at the nursing home where she died, and Blomkvist understood that the cause of death was a cerebral haemorrhage.†   (source)
  • When I was uncrated on Heaven's Gate and put to work digging out acid canals beyond the perimeter, I had suffered only a cerebral accident-a stroke.†   (source)
  • In addition, we have the advantage of modern science, and the advances made in the study of the cerebral diseases and mental disorders — advances which must surely tell in favour of Grace Marks.†   (source)
  • I am very well, and making considerable headway here, in my study of nervous and cerebral diseases among the criminal element, which, if the key to them may be found, would go a long way towards alleviating ....He can't go on; he feels too fraudulent.†   (source)
  • Most who suffer from the more severe nervous and cerebral disorders cannot be cured, but merely controlled; for which purposes, physical restraint and correction, a restricted diet, and cupping and bleeding to reduce excessive animal spirits, have in the past proven efficacious enough.†   (source)
  • Appending to the cerebral cortex.†   (source)
  • The last fourteen years of Agneta Sofia Salander's life had been punctuated by small cerebral haemorrhages which left her unable to take care of herself.†   (source)
  • And here was Farmer, who had stood, time after time for eighteen years, at the bedsides of Haitian peasants just arrived by donkey in the last throes of cerebral malaria—grandparents, mothers, fathers, children—already in convulsions.†   (source)
  • The world won't officially hear of Sheng's death for weeks, and when the announcement is made, his "sudden demise" will undoubtedly be attributed to a massive coronary or a cerebral haemorrhage, certainly not to murder.†   (source)
  • He has cerebral edema.†   (source)
  • In several instances he found green spots in the vessel walls, but never in the profusion he found for cerebral vessels.†   (source)
  • High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE) is less common than High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE), but it tends to be even more Deadly.†   (source)
  • A baffling ailment, HACE occurs when fluid leaks from oxygen-starved cerebral blood vessels, causing severe swelling of the brain, and it can strike with little or no warning.†   (source)
  • The scientists did not know why this should be, or how, precisely, the cerebral vessels regulate themselves.†   (source)
  • Her mother had spent ten years at Äppelviken, and it was where she finally died at only forty-six, after one last annihilating cerebral haemorrhage.†   (source)
  • Then, five months after the Hillary brouhaha flared, Hall was rocked by an even greater blow: in October 1993, Gary Ball died of cerebral edema-swelling of the brain brought on by high altitude during an attempt on 26,795-foot Dhaulagiri, the world's sixth-tallest mountain.†   (source)
  • But the phenomenon is known to exist, and cerebral vessels are regarded as a special case among the body's arteries and veins.†   (source)
  • The following morning Wlasich complained that he felt ill and then lost consciousness; a Norwegian doctor who happened to be present determined that the Austrian was suffering from both pulmonary and cerebral edema.†   (source)
  • It was impossible to say why, but it was known that the cerebral vessels are peculiar in several respects.†   (source)
  • The lead came to rest in the grey matter about two inches beneath the cerebral cortex, by the cerebrum.†   (source)
  • But even as the upper mountain was raked by winds in excess of a hundred miles per hour, the air at Camp Three barely stirred, and as the afternoon wore on I began to feel increasingly woozy from the fierce solar radiation-at least I hoped it was the heat that was making me stupid, and not the onset of cerebral edema.†   (source)
  • This is not on the other hand to define our relationship as Platonic, for in my understanding of that word there is an element of the cerebral, and Maria was not at all bright.†   (source)
  • Perhaps in his fatalism he loved Henry the better of the two, seeing perhaps in the sister merely the shadow, the woman vessel with which to consummate the love whose actual object was the youth: —this cerebral Don Juan who, reversing the order, had learned to love what he had injured; perhaps it was even more than Judith or Henry either: perhaps the life, the existence, which they represented.†   (source)
  • What caused the cerebral cortex to shut down as one fell asleep?†   (source)
  • No mammal except man has more abundant cerebral matter.†   (source)
  • Cerebral inflammation was complete and had brought on a paralysis of movement and sensation.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • He wants to get at his complicated "cerebral drama," to have his famous remorses and torments acted; but I want to act my part, my part!†   (source)
  • And so he was about to repeat his customary formula in such cases that all could be told to him without fear or hesitation, whatever it might be, when a secondary thought, based on Roberta's charm and vigor, as well as her own thought waves attacking his cerebral receptive centers, caused him to decide that he might be wrong.†   (source)
  • For two nights I had hardly had a wink of sleep, and my brain was beginning to feel that numbness which marks cerebral exhaustion.†   (source)
  • We assume that there are connections between the cerebral cortex and the vascular center in the medulla.†   (source)
  • Suddenly he jumped to his feet, with his eyes blazing and all the signs of intense cerebral excitement.†   (source)
  • The lowest animals had no nervous systems, let alone a cerebral cortex, and yet no one dared deny that they were capable of responding to stimuli.†   (source)
  • Cerebrum, cerebral, you understand.†   (source)
  • That is—those are— Gentlemen, let me call your attention to—cerebrum, cerebral, you understand.†   (source)
  • The tilt of the head suddenly implied roguishness; the lips, still open, smiled lewdly; the sybaritic dimple, familiar from earlier occasions, appeared in one cheek—and there was the dancing heathen priest, who jerked his head in jest and pointed in a cerebral direction.†   (source)
  • The books lay piled high on the table with the lamp, but one was on the floor mat next to his lounge chair and another, the one Hans Castorp had last been reading, lay across his stomach, its weight making it very difficult for him to breathe, although his cerebral cortex had sent no order to the appropriate muscles to remove it.†   (source)
  • There was no peculiar indication in any organ—an excitement of the nervous system—that was it; a case of cerebral congestion—nothing more.†   (source)
  • The cranium had been smashed open by some blunt instrument, leaving the naked brains exposed, and the cerebral matter had suffered deep abrasions.†   (source)
  • For many weeks he lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral symptoms, caused more by the shocks of the wounds on the head than by the wounds themselves.†   (source)
  • I drew Conseil's attention to the considerable growth of the cerebral lobes found in these intelligent cetaceans.†   (source)
  • 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.
  • Compared to the normal brain, Algernon's had decreased in weight and there was a general smoothing out of the cerebral convolutions as well as a deepening and broadening of brain fissures.†   (source)
  • Possible cerebral hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • Her cerebral lobes are not functioning.†   (source)
  • The committal of homicide or suicide during sleep by an aberration of the light of reason, the incommensurable categorical intelligence situated in the cerebral convolutions.†   (source)
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