CEREBRUM

(Lat.), n. n. Se2r(ker)'e2-bru3m(bru4m). Fr., cerveau. Ger., Gehirn (1st def.), Him (1st def.), Gro hirn (3d def.). It., Sp., cerebro. 1. The brain as a whole. 2. The principal portion of the brain, including the hemispheres (with the third and lateral ventricles), occupying the vault of the cranium and the anterior and middle fo ae of its base, consisting of central white and cortical gray matter, with special collections of gray matter (ganglia); continuous posteriorly with the cerebellum and the medulla oblong at a by a constricted portion called the isthmus. [1,15; K; L, 115.] See also BRAIN, CENTRE, COMMISSURE, CONVOLUTION, FISSURE, GANGLION, HEMISPHERE, LOBE, and the names of other particular parts of the c. 3. Of the ancients, the pith in the upper part of plants. [B, 114.] 4. In alchemy, water. [B, 50.] C. abdominale. The solar plexus. [L, 115.] C. arietis. Ger., Wa er von Eierklar. The watery portion of white of egg. [B, 50.] C. bovis. Tartarum combustum. [B, 50.] C. elongatum, C. longum, C. oblongum. The spinal cord. [L, 349.] C. palmpe. Ger.,Palmhirn. Anciently, the brain-like edible head of the cabbage-palm. [B, 180.] C. parvum. See CEREBELLUM. C. porci. A boar's brain; formerly used in medicine. [B, 180.] C. poster i us. See CEREBELLUM. [s. 182]