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Cerebellum

noun

(pl. E. cerebellums, L. cerebella)

A major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans.

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"Cerebellum" Quotes from Famous Books

... into his head every where, from the forehead and temples to the whole part that contains the cerebrum, because that region of the head corresponds to intelligence; but the influx of celestial angels is into that part of the head that contains the cerebellum, and is called the occiput, from the ears all around even to the neck, for that region corresponds to wisdom. All the speech of angels with man enters by these ways into his thought; and by this means I have perceived what angels they were ...

— Heaven and its Wonders and Hell • Emanuel Swedenborg

... Chrysothrix, Gorilla, Cynocephalus, Mycetes, Lemur), drawn so as to give the cerebral cavity the same length in each case, thereby displaying the varying proportions of the facial bones. The line 'b' indicates the plane of the tentorium, which separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum; 'd', the axis of the occipital outlet of the skull. The extent of cerebral cavity behind 'c', which is a perpendicular erected on 'b' at the point where the tentorium is attached posteriorly, indicates the degree to which the cerebrum overlaps ...

— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley

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