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Right brain   /raɪt breɪn/   Listen
Right brain

noun
1.
The cerebral hemisphere to the right of the corpus callosum that controls the left half of the body.  Synonym: right hemisphere.






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"Right brain" Quotes from Famous Books



... the right half of the body, and the right brain governs the left half, the connecting fibres having their crossing (called decussation) in the spinal cord. Hence the left brain is usually more fully developed in the occipital and basilar regions than the right, in right handed people, as may frequently be detected by a careful examination ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 - Volume 1, Number 3 • Various

... have the right brain to work upon, and I doubt if there is any brain to which it is so congenial and from which it brings so much as that of a first-rate London old lady. I came away from the great city with the feeling that this most complex product of civilization was nowhere else developed to such perfection. ...
— Our Hundred Days in Europe • Oliver Wendell Holmes



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