Cerebrous
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Synonym of cerebral. not-comparable
"The Blood afterwards returning from the Brain, endowed with its Energy, diluted with the cerebrous Lympha, mixed with new Chyle, Lympha and Bile, pour’d in together with Spirits perhaps and venous Blood into the Veins, received by the Heart, puls’d thence into the Lungs, and chang’d farther by them, reaſſumes again that Nature or Diſpoſition which it had before it reach’d the Cerebrum."
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More examples"The Blood afterwards returning from the Brain, endowed with its Energy, diluted with the cerebrous Lympha, mixed with new Chyle, Lympha and Bile, pour’d in together with Spirits perhaps and venous Blood into the Veins, received by the Heart, puls’d thence into the Lungs, and chang’d farther by them, reaſſumes again that Nature or Diſpoſition which it had before it reach’d the Cerebrum."
Etymology
From cerebrum + -ous.
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