Word Finder - brain

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The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.

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An intelligent person.

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She was a total brain.

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(in the plural) Intellect.

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She has a lot of brains.

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By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations.

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The computer's brain is capable of millions of calculations a second.

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Oral sex.

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Mind.

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I have too much on my brain today.

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To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.

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To strike (someone) on the head.

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To destroy; to put an end to.

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To conceive in the mind; to understand.

An idea flashed through her brain and left a frown on her face.

I have a terminal brain tumor.

From what I've learned his entire brain structure is distorted.

Why that picture settled into her brain, she couldn't say.

No doubt he knew he was being manipulated, but his brain was foggy enough that he wasn't sure what to do about it.

While Howie, between his brain damage, operations and lengthy coma created a rare combination of mental soup, could we say with any certainty that his ability was absolutely unique to him?

I'm kinda tired of having my brain cut open.

She'd removed her personal identifiers, hacked into the government's tracking mainframe to deactivate the implant in her brain, and changed into the black tactical uniform Elise brought her over her civilian grays.

The emerging brightness of the new day, while inviting, did nothing to sort out the tangle of thoughts crowding his brain like the line of a snarled fishing reel.

It operates on manipulation of brain waves but only on highly intelligent individuals.

It was then that my slowly reacting brain, flowing like cold molasses began to function, more than a gerbil driven wheel.

I mentioned a brain scan; you'd think I'd suggested a lobotomy.

He tucked the information in the back of his brain as he entered the store and purchased his Fat Tire Ale.

His highly nervous organization made his feelings acute, and his brain incessantly active..

Paris became the brain of Europe.

They all depress the conducting power and the grey matter of the spinal cord, and to a much less extent that of the brain.

I.m the brain, you.re the brawn.

Psychologists for the last 15 years have been trying to discover why the number 3 stimulates the human brain.

Cerebrospinal fluid This is the fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord.

Just think about the human brain, for a moment.

The soul is not an entity, but a faculty; thought is the function of the brain.

The Pentactaea, at all events as it sprang from the brain of Semon, must pass to the limbo of mythological ancestors.

But now his brain seemed to be turned by successindeed his wild language at times seemed to argue that he was not wholly sane.

Ideals and volitions are upon his view ultimately movements of the brain.

It has been maintained, on the one hand, that any theory which presupposes a direct correspondence between the molecular movements of the brain, and the states of consciousness which accompany them must make the freedom of the will impossible.

No kind of evidence can be adduced sufficient to prove that consciousness is a secretion of the brain, an effect or even a consequent of material processes or modes of motion.

No physiologist has ever claimed the power to prophesy with any approach to accuracy the future mental states of any individual from an examination of his brain.

There are, nevertheless, serious difficulties involved in the supposition that the changes in the brain with which physiology and the biological sciences deal can be satisfactorily explained by the mechanical and mathematical conceptions common to all these sciences, or, indeed, that any of these organic changes is susceptible in the last resort of explanation derived from purely material premises.

This argument has been met in recent times by the application to mind of the physiological theory of heredity, according to which changes produced in the mind (brain) of a parent, by association of ideas or otherwise, tend to be inherited by his offspring; so that the development of the moral sense or any other faculty or susceptibility of existing man may be hypothetically carried back into the prehistoric life of the human race, without any change in the manner of derivation supposed.

The argument, for instance, that intuitive and a priori beliefs gain their absolute character from the fact that they are the result of continued transmission and accumulation of past nervous modifications in the history of the race would, if taken seriously, lead us to the belief that ultimate ethical sanctions are to be sought, not by an appeal to the moral consciousness, but by the investigation of brain tissue and the relation of man's bodily organism to its environment.

At seventy - five his brain was as clear as ever, arid James saw that he was no fit tool for his purpose.

After death from chronic poisoning it is found present even in the brain and spongy bone.

In 1791 France was pulverized into innumerable administrative atoms incapable of cohesion; and the result was that Paris became more than ever the brain and nerve-centre of France.

As the war drew to its end, new plans for imperial consolidation were maturing in his brain.

Saturn, taking in Greek astrology the place at the head of the planets which among the Babylonians was accorded to JupiterMarduk, was given a place in the brain, which in later times was looked upon as the centre of soul-life; Venus, as the planet of the passion of love, was supposed to reign supreme over the genital organs, the belly and the lower limbs; Mars, as the violent planet, is associated with the bile, as well as with the blood and kidneys.

In front of the brain cavity, the great tubular nasal cavities are provided with well-developed turbinal bones, and are roofed over by large nasals, broad behind, and ending in front in a narrow decurved point.

Brain large, with two ventral hollow appendages; ventral cords widely divaricated, without distinct ganglia.

For very special objects the stand must be expressly made; thus stands with tube carriers very much projecting are made for examining sections of the brain.

When we come to consider more in detail the results of these actions we find that the various secretions of the body, such as the sweat, gastric juice, bile, milk, urine, &c., may be increased or diminished; that the heart may have its muscular or nervous apparatus stimulated or depressed; that the nerve-centres in the brain, medulla and spinal cord may be rendered more sensitive or the reverse; and that the general metabolism of the body may be altered in various ways.

A physiological classification according to an action on the brain, heart, kidney or other important organ becomes still more bewildering, as many substances produce the same effects by different agencies, as, for instance, the kidneys may be acted upon directly or through the circulation, while the heart may be affected either through its muscular substance or its nervous apparatus.

After absorption their action, speaking generally, is exerted on the brain and spinal cord, and is at first slightly stimulant and afterwards depressing, even to the causing of sleepiness and stupor.

Instead, his brain had starved for lack of oxygen, leading to the present situation.

He physically lost a portion of the brain itself.

He proceeded to take off on an explanatory lecture that mentioned anandamides as brain messenger molecules and details about brain chemistry.

He began explaining the wonders of the brain and its ability to conjure up subconscious fairy tales.

Transmitters activate the synapses, electrical junctions in the body that stimulate the brain, nerves, and muscle cells to become active and communicate.

I admit I don't know exactly how this is happening but I'm sure it's not my equipment; yes, it's a catalyst but it's mainly Howie's scrambled brain.

An Ivy League professor detailed the workings of the brain while another discussed time, with both concluding it was absolutely impossible.

He's not only seen Howie's flying saucer but he had proof, pictures with little green men, and an owner's manual to their ship, and, by his definition a self-centered jerk with most of his brain somewhere on an Interstate highway or a motor home grill stands in his way from announcing his findings and waiting for a call from the Nobel committee.

Diagnosed with a brain tumor as a child, she was pronounced terminal over three years before.