Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The portion of the embryonic brain from which the metencephalon and myelencephalon develop.
- noun The lower or hind region of the adult brain comprising the pons and medulla oblongata.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The metencephalon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The posterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the epencephalon and metencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the
epencephalon only.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy The posterior part of the
brain , comprising thecerebellum ,pons andmedulla
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the posterior portion of the brain including cerebellum and brainstem
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Examples
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Improvement in hindbrain herniation demonstrated by serial fetal magnetic resonance imaging following fetal surgery for myelomeningocele.
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The reason the pupils dilate is that the eyes are the closest organ to the hindbrain, which is responsible for stimulating the sympathetic nerve system.
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The reason the pupils dilate is that the eyes are the closest organ to the hindbrain, which is responsible for stimulating the sympathetic nerve system.
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What follows is a kind of hindbrain-centered, vengeance-motivated morality play which finds John and Emma taking in the very villains who have (unbeknownst to them) molested and shot their daughter, operating under the assumption that their car crashed out in the woods somewhere nearby.
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Seriously, what part of her tiny little reptilian hindbrain doesn't get it?
Friday Pix archmage 2010
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Seriously, what part of her tiny little reptilian hindbrain doesn't get it?
Oh, For The Luvva... archmage 2010
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Even if it's not important, my hindbrain won't let up on it and so I'm liable to suddenly blurt the word out in the middle of a conversation that has nothing to do with it.
Glimpse Inside A Writer's Brain Nalini Singh 2009
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Absolutely the way I do it The hindbrain always knows best.
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Sports taps into the violent tribal reservoir of the hindbrain, aka the lizard brain, aka the part in the back suggesting that the solution to any problem is to smash something.
Organized Sports Teaches Us Nothing | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009
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And I don't want to put you-the-reader through what's in my hindbrain right now.
Odin's Day jimhines 2009
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