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A name applied to either of two ridges of white matter in each lateral ventricle of the brain. The larger is called hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also ergot and calcar.

A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance. Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge . . . of wit. South. To take huff, to take offence. Cowper.

Relating to, or connected with, hydrocephalus, or dropsy of the brain.

ation of liquid within the cavity of the cranium, especially within the ventricles of the brain; dropsy of the brain. It is due usually to tubercular meningitis. When it occurs in infancy, it often enlarges the head enormously.

rrived at puberty; immature. In impuberal animals the cerebellum is, in proportion to the brain proper, greatly less than in adults. Sir W. Hamilton.

Below the margin; submarginal; as, an inframarginal convolution of the brain.

A funnel-shaped or dilated organ or part; as, the infundibulum of the brain, a hollow, conical process, connecting the floor of the third ventricle with the pituitary body; the infundibula of the lungs, the enlarged terminations of the bronchial tubes.

e. [Obs.] It is naturalor ingenite, which comes by some defect of the organs and overmuch brain. Burton.

nuses; as, the intercavernous sinuses connecting the cavernous sinuses at the base of the brain.

A passage; esp., the passage between the third and fourth ventricles in the brain; the aqueduct of Sylvius.

One of a group of nitrogenous phosphorized principles, supposed by Thudichum to exist in brain tissue.

A nitrogenous substance free from phosphorus, supposed to be present in the brain; a body closely related to cerebrin.

A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery. Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Dryden. A fat kitchen makes a lean will. Franklin.

tc.). [Colloq.] -- To knock out, to force out by a blow or by blows; as, to knock out the brains. -- To knock up. (a) To arouse by knocking. (b) To beat or tire out; to fatigue till unable to do more; as, the men were entirely knocked up. [Colloq.] "The day being exceedingly hot, the want of food had knocked up my fol…

asting grown. Swift. Who would not choose . . . to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain Barrow.

d substance widely distributed through the animal body, and especially conspicuous in the brain and nerve tissue, in yolk of eggs, and in the white blood corpuscles.

. The heart is represented only by a simple pulsating vessel. The blood is colorless; the brain, renal organs, and limbs are wanting, and the backbone is represented only by a simple, unsegmented notochord. See Amphioxus. [Written also Leptocardii.]

normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy. Are his wits safe Is he not light of brain Shak.

A band of white matter in the wall of fourth ventricle of the brain.

A general name for all those placental mammals that have a brain with few or no cerebral convolutions, as Rodentia, Insectivora, etc.