CEREBRUM (cerebra)

 Dictionary entry overview: What does cerebrum mean? 

• CEREBRUM (noun)
  The noun CEREBRUM has 1 sense:

1. anterior portion of the brain consisting of two hemispheres; dominant part of the brain in humans

  Familiarity information: CEREBRUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEREBRUM (noun)

Meaning:

Anterior portion of the brain consisting of two hemispheres; dominant part of the brain in humans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("cerebrum" is a kind of...):

neural structure (a structure that is part of the nervous system)

Meronyms (parts of "cerebrum"):

central sulcus; fissure of Rolando; Rolando's fissure; sulcus centralis (a brain fissure extending upward on the lateral surface of both hemispheres; separates the frontal and parietal lobes)

fissure of Sylvius; lateral cerebral sulcus; sulcus lateralis cerebri; Sylvian fissure (the deepest and most prominent of the cortical fissures; separates the frontal lobes and temporal lobes in both hemispheres)

cerebral hemisphere; hemisphere (either half of the cerebrum)

cerebral cortex; cerebral mantle; cortex; pallium (the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum)

convolution; gyrus (a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain)

Holonyms ("cerebrum" is a part of...):

telencephalon (the anterior division of the forebrain; the cerebrum and related parts of the hypothalamus)