cerebellum

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In the hind-brain the cerebellum is a mere band of tissue without lateral lobes or flocculi, and the medulla gives origin only to nerves four to ten; there is no eleventh nerve, and the hypoglossal is the first spinal-- from which it has been assumed that the rabbit's medulla equals that of the frog, plus a portion of the spinal cord incorporated with it.

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  1. noun The trilobed structure of the brain, lying posterior to the pons and medulla oblongata and inferior to the occipital lobes of the cerebral hemispheres, that is responsible for the regulation and coordination of complex voluntary muscular movement as well as the maintenance of posture and balance.

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  • Silver Stained Human Cerebellum - In humans, the cerebellum is a peach-sized, lobed structure located near the base of the brain.
  • There is currently enough anatomical, physiological, and theoretical evidence to support the hypotheses that the cerebellum is a specialized organism for supervised learning, the basal ganglia are for reinforcement learning, and the cerebral cortex is for unsupervised learning. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The cancer develops in very young children in the part of the brain called the cerebellum, the area that controls balance and movement. —  CTV News RSS Feed
  • In the hind-brain the cerebellum is a mere band of tissue without lateral lobes or flocculi, and the medulla gives origin only to nerves four to ten; there is no eleventh nerve, and the hypoglossal is the first spinal-- from which it has been assumed that the rabbit's medulla equals that of the frog, plus a portion of the spinal cord incorporated with it. —  Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
  • Some physiologists suppose that the cerebellum is the source of that harmony or associative power which co-ordinates all voluntary movements, and effects that delicate adjustment of cause to effect, displayed in muscular action. —  The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
 

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  1. Medieval Latin, from Latin, diminutive of cerebrum, brain; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French cervelle = Provencal cervela, servela (from Latin cerebella, plural) = Spanish cerebelo = Portuguese Italian cerebello, from L. (New Latin) cerebellum, a small brain, diminutive of cerebrum, the brain: see cerebrum.
 

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