brain
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brain/breɪn/
▶noun
- 1 an organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull, functioning as the coordinating centre of sensation and intellectual and nervous activity.
■ (brains) the substance of an animal's brain used as food.
- 2 intellectual capacity.
- 3 (the brains) informal a clever person who is the main organizer within a group.
– phrases
have something on the brain informal be obsessed with something.
have something on the brain informal be obsessed with something.
– derivatives
-brained adjective.
-brained adjective.
– origin OE brægen, of W. Gmc origin.
'brain' also found in these Oxford entries:
acalculia
- agnosia
- agraphia
- alexia
- alpha rhythm
- Alzheimer's disease
- amaurosis
- Ampakine
- amygdala
- anencephalic
- aphasia
- apraxia
- arachnoid
- basal ganglia
- beta rhythm
- biocomputer
- blood–brain barrier
- brain coral
- brain-dead
- brain death
- brain drain
- brainstem
- brains trust
- brain-teaser
- brainwave
- Broca's area
- caudate
- central nervous system
- cerebellum
- cerebral
- cerebral palsy
- cerebration
- cerebro-
- cerebroside
- cerebrospinal
- cerebrovascular
- cerebrum
- chiasma
- choroid plexus
- cingulum
- commissure
- connectionism
- convolution
- coprolalia
- cornu
- corpus callosum
- corpus striatum
- cranial nerves
- craniotomy
