the portion of the vertebrate central nervous system that constitutes t he organ of thought and neural coordination, includes all the higher nervous centers receiving stimuli from the sense organs and interpreting and correlating them to formulate the motor impulses, is made up of neurons and supporting and nutritive structures, is enclosed within the skull, and is continuous with the spinal cord through the foramen magnum
a nervous center in invertebrates comparable in position and function t o the vertebrate brain
INTELLECT, INTELLIGENCE - often used in pl. 2b
a very intelligent or intellectual person 2b
the chief planner of an organization or enterprise - usu. used in pl . 2. brain vt
