单词 | cerebellum |
释义 | cerebellumn. Physiology. The little or hinder brain; the mass of nervous matter forming the posterior part of the brain, situated behind and below the cerebrum, and above the medulla oblongata, and divided, like the cerebrum, into two ‘hemispheres’, one on each side. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [noun] > cerebellum cerebellum1565 after-brain1615 cerebel1621 brainlet1663 petty-brain1663 parencephalos1704 hindbrain1715 parencephalon1890 1565 J. Hall Anat. 3rd Treat. i. 36 in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. The fourthe [ventricle] is behynde, in an other lyttle brayne, called also in Latyne by diminution Cerebellum, and of the Grecians Parencephalis. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 432 The Cerebellum that is, the backeward or after-braine. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 302 His placing the Spirits to serve to voluntary actions in the Cerebrum, and those that serve Involuntary in the Cerebellum, is a noble and useful discovery. 1778 Anat. Dialogues (1785) ii. 57 Wounds in the Cerebellum..are mortal. 1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect Introd. ii. 51 The cerebellum is looked upon as the centre of the higher order of combined actions. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1565 |
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