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Cerebellum

noun

(pl. E. cerebellums, L. cerebella)

A major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans.

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"Cerebellum" Quotes from Famous Books

... most offensive) dog of a ghost. I only exist. This sounds like the colossal vanity of Bedlam. Heaven knows it is not. If you are racked with toothache from ear to ear, from crown to chin, and from eyeball to cerebellum, is not the whole universe concentrated in that head of yours? Are you not to yourself in that hour of torture the most vitally important of created beings? And no one blames you for it. Let me therefore be without blame in ...

— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke

... once pointed it out to me, in the skeleton of a foe he had slain, and with the vertebrae of which he was inlaying, in a sort of basso-relievo, the beaked prow of his canoe. Now, I consider that the phrenologists have omitted an important thing in not pushing their investigations from the cerebellum through the spinal canal. For I believe that much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul. I ...

— Moby-Dick • Melville

... found the lambdoid suture quite rough, and gave him a terrifically pugnacious character, not knowing enough to distinguish between osseous and cerebral development. The occipital knob on the median line between the cerebrum and cerebellum, has been already mentioned. The mastoid process, the bony prominence behind the ear is a projection exterior to the cerebellum. Where it starts from the cranium above and behind the cavity of the ear, we may judge of basilar development by the breadth ...

— Buchanan's Journal of Man, July 1887 - Volume 1, Number 6 • Various

... little way, were Tories, too, right to the centre of the cerebellum; the Flammas were hot Republicans. Now Amaryllis, being a girl, naturally loved her father most, yet she was a wilful and rebellious revolutionist. Amaryllis, who would not be a Flamma, had imbibed all the Flamma hatred of authority ...

— Amaryllis at the Fair • Richard Jefferies

Words linked to "Cerebellum" : cerebellar, vermis cerebelli, vermis, cerebellar artery, neural structure, cerebellar hemisphere, dentate nucleus, hindbrain, rhombencephalon, arteria cerebelli