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A nitrogenous body, related to cerebrin, supposed to exist in the brain.

The delicate and highly vascular membrane immediately investing the brain and spinal cord.

neal gland (Anat.), a glandlike body in the roof of the third ventricle of the vertebrate brain; -- called also pineal body, epiphysis, conarium. In some animals it is connected with a rudimentary eye, the so-called pineal eye, and in other animals it is supposed to be the remnant of a dorsal median eye.…

ate between those of man and the anthropoids, and the calvaria of the skull, indicating a brain capacity of about 900 cubic centimeters, and resembling in form that of the Neanderthal man. Also [pl. -thropi],

own function, situated in the pituitary fossa, and connected with the infundibulum of the brain; the hypophysis. -- Pituitary fossa (Anat.), the ephippium.

and connected at each side with the hemispheres of the cerebellum; the mesocephalon. See Brain. Pons asinorum. Etym: [L., literally, bridge of asses.] See Asses' bridge, under Ass.

A transverse commisure in the posterior part of the roof of the third ventricle of the brain; the posterior cerebral commisure. B. G. Wilder.

The posterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

A transverse commissure in the anterior part of the third ventricle of the brain; the anterior cerebral commissure.

The anterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

A lateral cavity of the prosencephalon; a lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain. There are the product Of those ill-mated marriages. Milton. These institutions are the products of enthusiasm. Burke.

Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.

ake one proselyte. Matt. xxiii. 15. Fresh confidence the speculatist takes From every harebrained proselyte he makes. Cowper.

The anterior segment of the brain, including the cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain.

A nitrogenous phosphorized principle found in brain tissue. By decomposition it yields neurine, fatty acids, and other bodies.

The lyra of the brain.

The fifth ventricle in the mammalian brain. See Ventricle. B. G. Wilder.

A prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the human brain.

The passage between the iter and optocoele in the brain. B. G. Wilder.