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Word: cerebral

Definition: pertaining to the brain or intellect; intellectual rather than emotional; CF. cerebrum


Sentences Containing 'cerebral'

There was no peculiar indication in any organ an excitement of the nervous system that was it; a case of cerebral congestion nothing more.

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