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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.

cerebral = involves careful thinking rather than emotions or instinct

She suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.

cerebral = related to the brain

That's only an eighth of the cerebral cortex, so I'm seven-eighths me, and one-eighth him.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

cerebral = relating to the brain

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

cerebral = relating to the brain

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
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
We assume that there are connections between the cerebral cortex and the vascular center in the medulla.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain

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