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Definition of Brain

Brain The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain. The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates. The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding. The affections; fancy; imagination. To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat. To conceive; to understand. Related Definitions: An, And, Anterior, Are, Beating, Become, Bony, By, Canal, Cartilaginous, Cavities, Center, Central, Cephalic, Conceive, Connected, Consciousness, Cord, Cranium, Dash, Defeat, Destroy, Developed, Embryonic, End, Fancy, Fig, From, Ganglion, Hence, Imagination, In, Inclosed, Intellect, Is, It, Kill, Mass, Matter, Nervous, Of, Or, Organ, Other, Out, Put, Seat, Simply, Soft, Spinal, System, Termination, The, Thicken, Three, To, Understand, Understanding, Unequally, Vertebrate, Volition, Which, Whitish, Whose, With

Brain Quotations This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. Theodor Geisel He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. Albert Einstein My brain is open. Paul Erdos Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein

Brain Translations brain in Afrikaans is brein brain in Danish is hjerne brain in Dutch is hersenen, brein, hersens brain in Finnish is aivot brain in French is cervelle, cerveau brain in German is Gehirn, Gehirn [im Plural: Verstand], Hirn brain in Italian is cervello brain in Norwegian is hjerne brain in Spanish is cerebro, cerebral

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