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functions, as of sight or of the various movements of the body, in special regions of the brain.

complete paralysis. The principal lesion is an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.

The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; -- so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.

Having a large brain.

Wild; crack-brained.

A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals.

A large transverse commissure in the third ventricle of the brain; the middle or soft commissure. B. G. Wildex.

The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

t; pith. Medulla oblongata. Etym: [L., oblong medulla] (Anat.), the posterior part of the brain connected with the spinal cord. It includes all the hindbrain except the cerebellum and pons, and from it a large part of the cranial nerves arise. It controls very largely respiration, circulation, swallowing, and other fun…

blastoderm, the edges of which unite, making a tube (the medullary canal) from which the brain and spinal cord are developed. -- Medullary rays (Bot.), the rays of cellular tissue seen in a transverse section of exogenous wood, which pass from the pith to the bark. -- Medullary sheath (Anat.), the layer of white sem…

in a horse, succeeded sometimes by unconsciousness, produced by an excess of blood in the brain; a mild form of apoplexy. Youatt.

The three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord; the pia mater, dura mater, and arachnoid membrane.

Inflammation of the membranes of the brain or spinal cord. Cerebro-spinal meningitis. See under Cerebro-spinal.

Of or pertaining to the mesencephalon or midbrain.

The middle segment of the brain; the midbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to mesen. See Brain.

The posterior part of the brain, including the medulla; the afterbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to meten.

Having a small brain.

ace regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself. A mint of phrases in his brain. Shak.

een a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. Madison. Confused by brainless mobs. Tennyson. Mob law, law administered by the mob; lynch law. -- Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] Dickens.

The nickname of a crackbrained Italian who fancied himself an emperor. [Obs.] Shak.