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Definition
relating to the brain — especially the cerebrum (front of the brain)or:
involving careful thinking rather than emotions or instinct
- Moderate exercise increases cerebral blood volume which improves thinking.
cerebral = relating to the brain
- Her thinking is too cerebral for his taste.
- She suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.
- His brain had decreased in weight and there was a general smoothing out of cerebral convolutions as well as a deepening and broadening of brain fissures.Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon
- But cerebral spinal fluid is just the doctors' fancy way of saying brain grease.Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- His cerebral functions had deserted him.Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
- 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.John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
- He then suffered several cerebral strokes.Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
- The fair was a "contagion," a "virus," a form of "progressive cerebral meningitis."Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
- But death was due to a cerebral haemorrhage.Michael Ondaatje -- Running in the Family
- Starting on the left cerebral cortex.Neal Shusterman -- Unwind
- Within the internal layer of cerebral vessels were small deposits of green.Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
- Appending to the cerebral cortex.Rick Yancey -- The Infinite Sea
- 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!Luigi Pirandello -- Six Characters in Search of an Author
- What will she demand next—a physical inspection of my cerebral cortex?Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
- Davey Cantor had said something about a cerebral hemorrhage.Chaim Potok -- The Chosen
- When Queens have to they do it by a cerebral process passed down in the blood...... Good.Tom Stoppard -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- He's a cheerful, burly looking man, not at all the cerebral, ascetic type I imagine hovering over datascreens in the Match Department.Ally Condie -- Matched
- There was no peculiar indication in any organ—an excitement of the nervous system—that was it; a case of cerebral congestion—nothing more.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The cranium had been smashed open by some blunt instrument, leaving the naked brains exposed, and the cerebral matter had suffered deep abrasions.Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
cerebral = involves careful thinking rather than emotions or instinct
cerebral = related to the brain
cerebral = brain
cerebral = relating to the brain