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intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.

loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain.

as, the aqueduct of Sylvius, a channel connecting the third and fourth ventricles of the brain.

Pertaining to a thin membrane of the brain and spinal cord, between the dura mater and pia mater.

Snatched away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. [Obs.] Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell.

Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse. "The bedlam, brainsick duchess." Shak.

r uneasy. B. Jonson. (c) To be full of fancies; to be a little crazy. "She's whiles crack-brained, and has a bee in her head." Sir W. Scott.

A small stick of wood, as for firewood. They shall beat out my brains with billets. Shak.

Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain. Dunglison.

Relating to the brain; cerebral. I. Taylor.

ular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm. Brawn without brains is thine. Dryden. It was ordained that murderers should be brent on the brawn of the left hand. E. Hall. And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn. Shak.

or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak.

A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.

Pertaining to, or situated near, the calcar of the brain.

wkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt. [Colloq.] Some silly, doting, brainless calf. Drayton.

as, a good catch of fish. Hector shall have a great catch if he knock out either of your brains. Shak.

The large lobe of the hind brain in front of and above the medulla; the little brain. It controls combined muscular action. See Brain.

The doctrine or theory that psychical phenomena are functions or products of the brain only.

To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.