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The segment of the brain next behind the midbrain, including the cerebellum and pons; the hindbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to epen.

The epithelial lining of the ventricles of the brain and the canal of the spinal cord; endyma; ependymis.

An error or mistake in writing or printing. A single erratum may knock out the brains of a whole passage. Cowper.

skull. Ethmovomerine plate (Anat.), a cartilaginous plate beneath the front of the fetal brain which the ethmoid region of the skull is developed.

The act of removing or beating out the brains.

Brainless. [R.]

Anything that fatigues. [R.] It is such a fag, I came back tired to death. Miss Austen. Brain fag. (Med.) See Cerebropathy.

Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak. Fainting fit, a fainting or swoon; syncope. [Colloq.]

In the manner of a fairy. Numerous as shadows haunting fairily The brain. Keats.

of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.

aving no fancy; without ideas or imagination. [R.] A pert or bluff important wight, Whose brain is fanciless, whose blood is white. Armstrong.

farrago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain. Sheridan.

A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution. Wilder.

A frivolous or featherbrained person. [Colloq.] H. James.

er Of pale and bloodless emulation. Shak. After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Shak. Brain fever, Continued fever, etc. See under Brain, Continued, etc. -- Fever and ague, a form of fever recurring in paroxysms which are preceded by chills. It is of malarial origin. -- Fever blister (Med.), a blister or vesicle…

A fascia; a band of fibers; applied esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain.

A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain. -- Fim"bri*al, a.

Pertaining to a fissure or fissures; as, the fissural pattern of a brain.

a deep cerebral fissure separating the frontal from the temporal lobe. See Illust. under Brain. -- Fissure vein (Mining), a crack in the earth's surface filled with mineral matter. Raymond.

thought himself safe unless he carried under his coat a small flail, loaded with lead, to brain the Popish assassins. Macaulay.