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    Brain — definition & meaning




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    Brain n. 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.



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