Cerebral

What do we mean by cerebral?

Of or relating to the brain or cerebrum. adjective

Appealing to or requiring the use of the intellect; intellectual rather than emotional. adjective

Pertaining to the brain of a vertebrate animal, whether to the whole brain or to the brain proper or cerebrum.

Pertaining to the anterior or preoral ganglia of the nervous system in invertebrate animals, regarded as the analogue or homologue of the vertebrate brain.

These ganglia are commonly connected with the rest of the nervous system by an esophageal ring, or commissural fibers encircling the anterior part of the alimentary canal. See esophageal ring, under esophageal.

A cerebral sound or letter. See I. noun

Of or pertaining to the cerebrum. adjective

See under Apoplexy. adjective

One of a class of lingual consonants in the East Indian languages. See lingual, n. noun

Of, or relating to the brain or cerebral cortex of the brain. adjective

Intellectual rather than emotional. adjective

Retroflex. adjective

Involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct adjective

Of or relating to the cerebrum or brain adjective

Of, or relating to the brain, cerebrum, or cerebral cortex.

Intellectual rather than emotional.

Words that are spelled similarly to cerebral:
cerebral, cerebra, cereal, cerebrum, cerebri, cerebrate, vertebral, cerebel, cerebro, terebra, cerebric, cerebrin, terebrae, cerebr, cerebro-, terebras, cerebr-, cerebrale, celebrar, celebra, cerebron.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word cerebral:
palsy, hemorrhage, haemorrhage, cortex, oedema, ischemia, edema, spastic, aneurysm, ganglia, perfusion, infarction, angiography, thalamus, cerebellum, thrombosis, hypoxia, intracranial, malformation, cerebellar, blindness, cortical, impairment, brainstem, peduncle, gyrus, carotid, ischemic, arteries, artery, hippocampus, occipital, atrophy, csf, venous, wheelchair, spinal, epilepsy, parietal, sinus, overlap, meningitis, brain, neurological, neuronal, lobe, malaria, hemisphere, sclerosis, lesion, seizures, veins, aqueduct, vascular, neurons, mri, traumatic, lesions, classifications, cord, nuclei, dysfunction, swelling, coma, basal, disability, paralympics, stroke, lobes, frontal, vein, anterior, arterial, posterior, disabilities, metabolism, temporal, muscular, sensory, athletes, abnormal, les, metabolic, impaired, autism, neural, blood, syndrome, strokes, nucleus, classification, flow, nerve, fluid, bleeding, lateral, visual, categories, nervous, symptoms.

Words that rhyme with cerebral:
febrile.

Adjectives that are often used to describe cerebral:
middle, posterior, anterior, more, diffuse, focal, less, internal, most, left, acute, right, severe, lateral, isolated, inferior, somatosensory, deep, fetal, adequate, infantile, superficial, transient, fatal, bilateral, progressive, congenital, mild, multiple, regional, derrame, massive, superior, generalized, chronic, experimental, extensive, grave, marked, onset, distinct, ramollissement, visual, called, spastic, impaired, ipsilateral, sound, widespread, least, unilateral, irreversible, traumatic, associated, feline, recurrent, trigeminal, inadequate, basal, presumed, neonatal, concomitant, longitudinal, cranio, adjacent, ruptured, institutionalized, syphilitic.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective cerebral:
cortex, palsy, flow, hemispheres, artery, edema, hemisphere, arteries, ischemia, hemorrhage, infarction, circulation, vessels, lesions, symptoms, metabolism, disease, function, atrophy, thrombosis, damage, haemorrhage, perfusion, angiography, activity, dominance, pressure, dysfunction, tissue, embolism, abscess, matter, veins, injury, arteriosclerosis, oedema, ventricles, malaria, vasospasm, congestion, peduncle, lesion, vein, functions, aneurysms, occlusion, volume, aqueduct, substance, peduncles, ischaemia, ganglia, aneurysm, malformations, hypoxia, localization, accident, nerves, fluid, ganglion, anoxia, tumour, involvement, concussion, infarcts, tumors, organization, asymmetry, trauma, lateralization, autoregulation, metastases, structures, utilization, tissues, syphilis, vasculature, tumor, contusion, accidents, disorders, irritation, anaemia, origin, disturbance, paralysis, pathology, tumours, convolutions, consumption.

Words that sound like cerebral:
cerebral, cerebra, cerebel, separable, cerebrate, severable, screable, wearable, shareable, sharable, scribble, sufferable, steerable, cerebellar, strebel, cerebella, scrabble, sociable, sizable, sizeable, seeable, satiable, sellable, hearable, sortable, celebre, struble, storable, strobel, strobile, cerebrally, seizable, sayable, scribal, hirable, sororal, stroble, superable, scrobble, sour apple, surabaya, sparable, sperable, strobl, suable, saturable, setubal, terrible, horrible, parable, marable, tearable, hireable, carriable, terribile, cereal, syllable, serial, cerial, scriptural, sea robber, the rebel, several, bearable, cerebrum, scruple, scrubber, arable, cible, screwball, salable, scrapple, cerebro, semble, scrubbers, searchable, saleable, savable, sebra, censurable, saveable, see double, mirable, sealable, sailable, seral, ceryl, screwable, mirabal, servable, strapple, citable, sackable, cerebral death, ceryle, cerebral vein, cerebri, sanable, earable, scrubbird.