cerebrous

Adjective

cerebrous (not comparable)

1. Synonym of cerebral.
   • The Blood afterwards returning from the Brain, endowed with its Energy, diluted with the cerebrous Lympha, mixed with new Chyle, Lympha and Bile, pour’d in together with Spirits perhaps and venous Blood into the Veins, received by the Heart, puls’d thence into the Lungs, and chang’d farther by...1714, J[oseph] Browne, “The Cortex of the Brain”, in Institutions in Physick, Collected from the Writings of the Most Eminent Physicians. […], London: […] W. R. for Jonah Browne, […], page 84
   • When the hunting season terminates, the dried skins are steeped in water, and the hair detached by the use of an old knife; after this, they are placed in an earthen pot with the powdered brains, and afterwards heated to 95°, or thereabouts. By this treatment the cerebrous matter is converted into...1860, [James] Sheridan Muspratt, “Leather”, in Chemistry, Theoretical, Practical, and Analytical, as Applied and Relating to the Arts and Manufactures, volume II (Fuel–Zinc), London; Glasgow...

   Synonyms:

   cerebral