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The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord,

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The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain. Note: In the brain of man the cerebral lobes, or largest part of the forebrain, are enormously developed so as to overhang the cerebellum, the great lobe of the hindbrain, and completely cover the lobes of the midbrain. The surface of the cerebrum is divided into irregular ridges, or convolutions, separated by grooves (the so-called fissures and sulci), and the two hemispheres are connected at the bottom of the longitudinal fissure by a great transverse band of nervous matter, the corpus callosum, while the two halves of the cerebellum are connected on the under side of the brain by the bridge, or pons Varolii.

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• ANTERIORITY
  The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.
• SYSTEMATIZE
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
• MATTER
  1. To be of importance; to import; to signify. It matters not how they were called. Locke. 2. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate. "Each slight sore mattereth." Sir P. Sidney.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• SYSTEMLESS
  Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system.
• SYSTEMIZATION
  The act or process of systematizing; systematization.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SYSTEMATISM
  The reduction of facts or principles to a system. Dunglison.
• CENTERING
  See 6
• SYSTEMATIST
  1. One who forms a system, or reduces to system. 2. One who adheres to a system.
• TERMINATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.
• CRANIUM
  The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. See Skull. (more info) Gr.
• NERVOUSLY
  In a nervous manner.
• SIMPLY
  1. In a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; along; merely; solely; barely. make that now good or evil, . . . which otherwise of itself were not simply the one or the other. Hooker. Simply the thing I am Shall make
• CENTERBIT; CENTREBIT
  An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.
• SYSTEMATIZATION
  The act or operation of systematizing.
• CENTERBOARD; CENTREBOARD
  A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel
• TERMINATION
  The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection. (more info) 1. The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities. 2. That
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• INCLOSE
  Etym: 1. To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls. How many evils have inclosed me round! Milton. 2. To put within a case,
• CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
  To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
• PERICRANIUM
  The periosteum which covers the cranium externally; the region around the cranium.
• BERTILLON SYSTEM
  A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.
• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
  The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British
• INVERTEBRATE
  Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. -- n.
• SENSORI-VOLITIONAL
  Concerned both in sensation and volition; -- applied to those nerve fibers which pass to and from the cerebro-spinal axis, and are respectively concerned in sensation and volition. Dunglison.
• INTERCARTILAGINOUS
  Within cartilage; endochondral; as, intercartilaginous ossification.
• OSTEOCRANIUM
  The bony cranium, as distinguished from the cartilaginous cranium.
• SELF-CENTERING; SELF-CENTRING
  Centering in one's self.
• CHAUTAUQUA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
  The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.
• SELF-DETERMINATION
  Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.
• INVERTEBRATED
  Having no backbone; invertebrate.
• PREDETERMINATION
  The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond.